hydroxy

1. 1.

   being or containing a hydroxyl group

Questions about hydroxy

What does hydroxy mean?

hydroxy means "being or containing a hydroxyl group".

How many syllables are in hydroxy?

hydroxy has 3 syllables: hy-drox-y. The stress falls on "drox". In IPA it is /ˌhaɪˈdɹɔksi/.

Is hydroxy a common word?

hydroxy is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.