solvent

1. 1.

   capable of meeting financial obligations

   Antonymsinsolvent

Other forms of solvent

plural

solvents·

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 solvent

What does solvent mean?

solvent means "a liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in solvent?

solvent has 2 syllables: sol-vent. The stress falls on "sol". In IPA it is /ˈsɑlvənt/.

What is another word for solvent?

Close synonyms include dissolvent, dissolver, dissolving agent, resolvent, solution. 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.

What is the opposite of solvent?

The recorded antonyms are insolvent.

Is solvent a common word?

solvent is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with solvent?

1 word rhymes with solvent. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.