Synonyms & related words for chelate

Find synonyms, related words, and the definition of chelate. Dendril is a free visual thesaurus that shows them on an interactive map where stronger matches sit closer to the center — no signup, no ads.

Words related to chelate

Explore words related to chelate — words associated with it, words that go with it, and its nearest matches in meaning. Related words include trivalent, metalloid, divalent, organometallic, molybdous, osmious, trimetallic, iodic. Click any word to make it the center of the map and keep exploring the web of connections.

Where does chelate come from?

The word chelate breaks down into 2 roots of Greek and Latin origin: chel, from Greek chele (“claw, pincer”); and -ate, from Latin -atus (“provided with, formed as”). Explore each root to see other English words built from the same source.