phenylethylene

1. 1.

   a colorless oily liquid; the monomer for polystyrene

   Synonymsstyrenecinnamenevinylbenzene

   Broadervinyl polymer

   Narrowerpolystyrene

Other forms of phenylethylene

plural

phenylethylenes·

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 phenylethylene

What does phenylethylene mean?

phenylethylene means "a colorless oily liquid; the monomer for polystyrene".

How many syllables are in phenylethylene?

phenylethylene has 5 syllables: phe-ny-le-thy-lene. The stress falls on "le".

What is another word for phenylethylene?

Close synonyms include styrene, cinnamene, vinylbenzene. 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 phenylethylene a common word?

phenylethylene 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.