propanediol

1. 1.

   a sweet colorless, viscous, hygroscopic liquid used as an antifreeze and in brake fluid and also as a humectant in cosmetics and personal care items although it can be absorbed through the skin with harmful effects

   Synonymspropylene glycol

   Broaderantifreezehumectant

Other forms of propanediol

plural

propanediols·

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 propanediol

What does propanediol mean?

propanediol means "a sweet colorless, viscous, hygroscopic liquid used as an antifreeze and in brake fluid and also as a humectant in cosmetics and personal care items although it can be absorbed through the skin with harmful effects".

How many syllables are in propanediol?

propanediol has 5 syllables: pro-pa-ne-di-ol. The stress falls on "ne".

What is another word for propanediol?

Close synonyms include propylene glycol. 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 propanediol a common word?

propanediol 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.