phenylamine

1. 1.

   oily poisonous liquid amine obtained from nitrobenzene and used to make dyes and plastics and medicines

   Synonymsanilineaniline oilaminobenzine

   Broaderamine

Other forms of phenylamine

plural

phenylamines·

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 phenylamine

What does phenylamine mean?

phenylamine means "oily poisonous liquid amine obtained from nitrobenzene and used to make dyes and plastics and medicines".

How many syllables are in phenylamine?

phenylamine has 4 syllables: phe-ny-la-mine. The stress falls on "ny".

What is another word for phenylamine?

Close synonyms include aniline, aniline oil, aminobenzine. 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 phenylamine a common word?

phenylamine 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.