methylbenzene

1. 1.

   a colorless flammable liquid obtained from petroleum or coal tar; used as a solvent for gums and lacquers and in high-octane fuels

   Synonymstoluene

   Broaderalkylbenzenesolvent

Other forms of methylbenzene

plural

methylbenzenes·

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 methylbenzene

What does methylbenzene mean?

methylbenzene means "a colorless flammable liquid obtained from petroleum or coal tar; used as a solvent for gums and lacquers and in high-octane fuels".

How many syllables are in methylbenzene?

methylbenzene has 4 syllables: me-thyl-ben-zene. The stress falls on "thyl".

What is another word for methylbenzene?

Close synonyms include toluene. 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 methylbenzene a common word?

methylbenzene 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.