Usually means: Synthetic material, moldable, various uses.
Definitions Related words Phrases (New!) Mentions Lyrics History Colors (New!)
We found 49 dictionaries that define the word plastic:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. -plastic, plastic: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. plastic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. plastic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. -plastic, plastic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. plastic: Vocabulary.com
  6. Plastic, -plastic, plastic: Wordnik
  7. plastic: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. plastic: Wiktionary
  9. -plastic, plastic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. -plastic, plastic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. plastic: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. -plastic, plastic: Dictionary.com
  13. plastic (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. plastic: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Plastic (Alanis Morissette song), Plastic (Joey Tafolla album), Plastic (New Order song), Plastic (comics), Plastic (disambiguation), Plastic (song), Plastic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Plastic, -plastic, plastic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. plastic: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. plastic: Rhymezone
  19. plastic, plastic, plastic (het): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. plastic: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. -plastic, plastic: MyWord.info
  22. plastic: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. plastic: Free Dictionary
  24. plastic: ESL Idiom Page
  25. plastic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. Plastic: The Word Detective
  27. plastic: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. plastic: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. -plastic: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. plastic: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. plastic: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. -plastic, plastic: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. PLASTIC: Acronym Finder

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. plastic, plastic: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. plastic: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. the plastic: Urban Dictionary

Tech (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Composite Terms (No longer online)
  3. The Stamp Store Glossary (concrete) (No longer online)
  4. Explosives (No longer online)
  5. Plastic: Fiberglass Glossary
  6. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  7. Plastic (adj): Pottery Studio

(Note: See plasticky as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
)
American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A synthetic, solid, hydrocarbon-based polymer, whether thermoplastic or thermosetting.
noun:  (colloquial, metonymically) Credit or debit cards used in place of cash to buy goods and services.
noun:  (figurative, slang) insincerity; fakeness, or a person who is fake or arrogant, or believes that they are better than the rest of the population.
noun:  (slang, countable) An instance of plastic surgery.
noun:  (obsolete) A sculptor, moulder.
noun:  (archaic) Any solid but malleable substance.
adjective:  Capable of being moulded; malleable, flexible, pliant.
adjective:  (medicine, now rare) Producing tissue.
adjective:  (dated) Creative, formative.
adjective:  (biology) Capable of adapting to varying conditions; characterized by environmental adaptability.
adjective:  Of or pertaining to the inelastic, non-brittle, deformation of a material.
adjective:  Made of plastic.
adjective:  (figurative, derogatory) Inferior or not the real thing.
adjective:  (figurative, informal, of a person) Fake, insincere, especially in a shallow and conformist way pretending to smoothness and glossy flawlessness.
adjective:  (informal, birdwatching, of an individual bird) Escaped from captivity, rather than wild.
adjective:  (informal, birdwatching, of a species or individual bird) Introduced, rather than native or naturally vagrant.

Similar:

Opposite:

Types:

Phrases:

Adjectives:

Colors:
    red,     blue,     green,     yellow,     pink, more...



Word origin

Words similar to plastic

Usage examples for plastic

Idioms related to plastic

Wikipedia articles (New!)

Popular adjectives describing plastic

Popular nouns described by plastic

Words that often appear near plastic

Rhymes of plastic

Invented words related to plastic

Similar:

Opposite:

Types:

Phrases:

Adjectives:

Colors:
    red,     blue,     green,     yellow,     pink, more...



Writing poetry or lyrics? You can find related words that match a given meter.
This feature is permanently available from the "Related words" tab and from the Thesaurus.





Home   Reverse Dictionary / Thesaurus   Datamuse   Compound Your Joy   Threepeat   Spruce   Feedback   Dark mode   Help


Our daily word games Threepeat and Compound Your Joy are going strong. Bookmark and enjoy!