textile

1. 1.

   of or relating to fabrics or fabric making

   “textile research”

Other forms of textile

plural

textiles·

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 textile

What does textile mean?

textile means "artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in textile?

textile has 2 syllables: te-xtile. The stress falls on "te". In IPA it is /ˈtɛkˌstaɪl/.

What is another word for textile?

Close synonyms include fabric, cloth, material. 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 textile a common word?

textile is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for 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 textile?

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