man-made fiber

1. 1.

   fiber created from natural materials or by chemical processes

   Synonymssynthetic fiber

   Broaderfiber

   Narroweracrylic fibernylon

Questions about man-made fiber

What does man-made fiber mean?

man-made fiber means "fiber created from natural materials or by chemical processes".

What is another word for man-made fiber?

Close synonyms include synthetic fiber. 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 man-made fiber a common word?

man-made fiber 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.