styrene

Questions about styrene

What does styrene mean?

styrene means "a colorless oily liquid; the monomer for polystyrene".

How many syllables are in styrene?

styrene has 2 syllables: sty-rene. The stress falls on "sty". In IPA it is /ˈstaɪˌɹin/.

What is another word for styrene?

Close synonyms include cinnamene, phenylethylene, vinylbenzene. 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 styrene a common word?

styrene 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.

What rhymes with styrene?

4 words rhyme with styrene. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.