non-buoyant

1. 1.

   tending to sink in a liquid or fall in air

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Questions about non-buoyant

What does non-buoyant mean?

non-buoyant means "tending to sink in a liquid or fall in air".

How many syllables are in non-buoyant?

non-buoyant has 3 syllables and divides as non--buo-yant under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is non-buoyant a common word?

non-buoyant 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.