acne

Meaning of acne

noun
  1. a skin condition characterized by red pimples on the skin, especially on the face, due to inflamed or infected sebaceous glands and prevalent chiefly among adolescents.
    he was clean-shaven with a face that had been ravaged by acne when younger

mid 19th century: via modern Latin from Greek aknas, a misreading of akmas, accusative plural of akmē ‘highest point, peak, or facial eruption’; compare with acme.

Information about acne

Hyphenation of acne

acne

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 4 chars.
  • acne is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

Translation of acne

Anagrams of acne

ance, Caen, cane, Nace, nace

Words that rhyme with acne

antiacne, chloracne

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