Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun acetone

1 sense of acetone

Sense 1
acetone, propanone, dimethyl ketone -- (the simplest ketone; a highly inflammable liquid widely used as an organic solvent and as material for making plastics)
       => ketone -- (any of a class of organic compounds having a carbonyl group linked to a carbon atom in each of two hydrocarbon radicals)
       => solvent, dissolvent, dissolver, dissolving agent, resolvent -- (a liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances; "the solvent does not change its state in forming a solution")