quick-drying

1. 1.

   of a liquid substance that dries quickly

   Similarchangeable

Questions about quick-drying

What does quick-drying mean?

quick-drying means "of a liquid substance that dries quickly".

How many syllables are in quick-drying?

quick-drying has 3 syllables and divides as quick--dry-ing 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 quick-drying a common word?

quick-drying 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.