nacreous

What does nacreous mean?

nacreous means "consisting of or resembling mother-of-pearl". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in nacreous?

nacreous has 3 syllables: na-cre-ous. The stress falls on "cre".

What is another word for nacreous?

Close synonyms include iridescent, opalescent, opaline, pearlescent. 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 nacreous a common word?

nacreous 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for nacreous come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.