adj
Meaning 1
guileless
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
indole
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɪndəʊl/
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɪndɒl/
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General-American: /ˈɪndoʊl/
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General-American: /ˈɪndɑl/
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noun
Meaning 2
An organic compound, C8H7N, found in coal tar, and produced in the gut by the bacterial decomposition of tryptophan; it is an aromatic bicyclic heterocycle having a benzene ring fused with a pyrrole ring; indole and its derivatives occur widely in nature and have many industrial applications.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: chemistry, natural-sciences, organic-chemistry, physical-sciences
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: ketole
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
Any of the derivatives of indole.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: chemistry, natural-sciences, organic-chemistry, physical-sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From indigo + Latin oleum (“oil”); see -ole.
Across languages
Translations
33 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Afrikaans: indool — organic compound
- Arabic: إندول — organic compound
- Catalan: indole — organic compound
- Chinese Cantonese: 吲哚 (jan5 do2) — organic compound
- Chinese Mandarin: 吲哚 (yǐnduǒ) — organic compound
- Danish: indol — organic compound
- Dutch: indool — organic compound
- Esperanto: indolo — organic compound
- Finnish: indoli — organic compound
- French: indole — organic compound
- German: Indol — organic compound
- Hungarian: indol — organic compound
- Indonesian: indol — organic compound
- Italian: indolo — organic compound
- Japanese: インドール (indōru) — organic compound
- Kannada: ಇಂಡೋಲ್ (iṇḍōl) — organic compound
- Kazakh: индол (indol) — organic compound
- Korean: 인돌 (indol) — organic compound
- Kyrgyz: индол (indol) — organic compound
- Malayalam: ഇൻഡോൾ (iṉḍōḷ) — organic compound
- Norwegian Bokmål: indol — organic compound
- Norwegian Nynorsk: indol — organic compound
- Persian: ایندول — organic compound
- Polish: benzopirol — organic compound
- Polish: indol — organic compound
- Portuguese: indol — organic compound
- Romanian: indol — organic compound
- Russian: индо́л (indól) — organic compound
- Serbo-Croatian: indol — organic compound
- Spanish: indol — organic compound
- Swedish: indol — organic compound
- Thai: อินโดล — organic compound
- Ukrainian: індол (indol) — organic compound