saponified

1. 1.

   converted into soap

   “saponified oils”

   Antonymsunsaponified

Questions about saponified

What does saponified mean?

saponified means "converted into soap".

How many syllables are in saponified?

saponified has 4 syllables and divides as sa-po-ni-fied 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.

What is the opposite of saponified?

The recorded antonyms are unsaponified.

Is saponified a common word?

saponified 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.