mordant

1. 1.

   a substance used to treat leather or other materials before dyeing; aids in dyeing process

   Broadercoloring material

   Narrowerchrome alumtartar emeticsodium dichromate

Other forms of mordant

plural

mordants·

comparative

mordanter·

superlative

mordantest·

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 mordant

What does mordant mean?

mordant means "harshly ironic or sinister". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mordant?

mordant has 2 syllables: mor-dant. The stress falls on "mor". In IPA it is /ˈmɔɹdənt/.

What is another word for mordant?

Close synonyms include black, grim, caustic, corrosive, erosive. 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 mordant a common word?

mordant 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.