iron pyrite

1. 1.

   a common mineral (iron disulfide) that has a pale yellow color

   Synonymspyritefool's gold

   Broadermineral

Questions about iron pyrite

What does iron pyrite mean?

iron pyrite means "a common mineral (iron disulfide) that has a pale yellow color".

What is another word for iron pyrite?

Close synonyms include pyrite, fool's gold. 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 iron pyrite a common word?

iron pyrite 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.