thermoplastic

1. 1.

   a material that softens when heated and hardens again when cooled

   Synonymsthermoplastic resin

   Broaderplastic

   Narrowersarancelluloid

1. 1.

   having the property of softening or fusing when heated and of hardening and becoming rigid again when cooled

   “thermoplastic materials can be remelted and cooled time after time without undergoing any appreciable chemical change”

   Antonymsthermosetting

Other forms of thermoplastic

plural

thermoplastics·

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 thermoplastic

What does thermoplastic mean?

thermoplastic means "a material that softens when heated and hardens again when cooled". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in thermoplastic?

thermoplastic has 4 syllables: ther-mo-plas-tic. The stress falls on "plas". In IPA it is /ˌθɝməˈplæstɪk/.

What is another word for thermoplastic?

Close synonyms include thermoplastic resin. 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 thermoplastic?

The recorded antonyms are thermosetting.

Is thermoplastic a common word?

thermoplastic 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 thermoplastic?

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