molecule
nounHow many syllables in molecule?
There are 3 syllables in the word molecule.How to pronounce molecule:
Definition of molecule:
- molecule (noun):
- a very small particle
- (physics and chemistry) the simplest structural unit of an element or compound.
- the smallest particle of a substance that retains all the properties (see property sense 1a) of the substance and is composed of one or more atoms (see atom sense 1a)
Synonyms for molecule:
atom
bit
bite
building block
chain
chemical chain
chemical group
coenzyme
corpuscle
crumb
dipole molecule
dribble
drop
edta
ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid
fleck
flyspeck
fraction
fragment
grain
granule
iota
jot
lick
macromolecule
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Antonyms for molecule:
abundance
barrel
batch
beam
blob
block
bucketload
bulk
bunch
bundle
chunk
clod
clump
cluster
conglomerate
entirety
fair amount
fistful
glob
gob
gobbet
good deal
great deal
heap
hunk
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- paprika
- malnourished
- uncover
- momentum
- erection
- bulletin
- Malia
- unshadowed
- admirers
- unravelled
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- amateur
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- follow-up
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- straightaway
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- Messianic
- ukulele
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- serenade
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- elector
- repentant
- coordinates
- bellowing
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- coordinate
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