Loading page
say it: NEE-uh-preen
neoprene is a noun meaning "a synthetic rubber that is resistant to oils and aging; used in waterproof products". It is pronounced /ˈniəˌpɹin/ — NEE-uh-preen. It carries one recorded sense.
a synthetic rubber that is resistant to oils and aging; used in waterproof products
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for neoprene come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.