substantive dye

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   dye with a high affinity for cellulose fibers (cotton or rayon etc.)

   Synonymsdirect dye

   Broaderdye

Questions about substantive dye

What does substantive dye mean?

substantive dye means "dye with a high affinity for cellulose fibers (cotton or rayon etc.)".

What is another word for substantive dye?

Close synonyms include direct dye. 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 substantive dye a common word?

substantive dye 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.