vinyl ether

1. 1.

   a colorless volatile highly flammable liquid formerly used as an inhalation anesthetic

   Synonymsetherethoxyethanedivinyl etherdiethyl etherethyl ether

   Broaderinhalation anesthetic

   Narrowerenflurane

Questions about vinyl ether

What does vinyl ether mean?

vinyl ether means "a colorless volatile highly flammable liquid formerly used as an inhalation anesthetic".

What is another word for vinyl ether?

Close synonyms include ether, ethoxyethane, divinyl ether, diethyl ether, ethyl ether. 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 vinyl ether a common word?

vinyl ether 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.