wash-and-wear

What does wash-and-wear mean?

wash-and-wear means "a fabric treated to be easily washable and to require no ironing". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in wash-and-wear?

wash-and-wear has 4 syllables: wa-sh-an-d-we-ar. The stress falls on "sh-an".

What is another word for wash-and-wear?

Close synonyms include drip-dry. 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 wash-and-wear a common word?

wash-and-wear 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for wash-and-wear come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.