propenoic acid

1. 1.

   an unsaturated liquid carboxylic acid used in the manufacture of acrylic resins

   Synonymsacrylic acid

   Broadercarboxylic acid

Questions about propenoic acid

What does propenoic acid mean?

propenoic acid means "an unsaturated liquid carboxylic acid used in the manufacture of acrylic resins".

What is another word for propenoic acid?

Close synonyms include acrylic acid. 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 propenoic acid a common word?

propenoic acid 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.