isopropyl alcohol

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   alcohol used as antifreeze or a solvent

   Synonymsisopropanol

   Broaderalcohol

Questions about isopropyl alcohol

What does isopropyl alcohol mean?

isopropyl alcohol means "alcohol used as antifreeze or a solvent".

What is another word for isopropyl alcohol?

Close synonyms include isopropanol. 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 isopropyl alcohol a common word?

isopropyl alcohol 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.