iodoform

1. 1.

   sweet smelling yellow solid haloform CHI3

   Synonymstri-iodomethane

   Broaderhaloform
2. 2.

   a yellowish crystalline solid with a penetrating odor; sometimes used as an antiseptic dressing

   Synonymstriiodomethane

   Broaderantiseptic

Other forms of iodoform

plural

iodoforms·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about iodoform

What does iodoform mean?

iodoform means "sweet smelling yellow solid haloform CHI3". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in iodoform?

iodoform has 4 syllables: i-o-do-form. The stress falls on "o".

What is another word for iodoform?

Close synonyms include tri-iodomethane, triiodomethane. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is iodoform a common word?

iodoform 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.