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antiseptic has no recorded synonym. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. Its one recorded opposite is septic.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
thoroughly clean and free of or destructive to disease-causing organisms
“doctors in antiseptic green coats”
a substance that destroys micro-organisms that carry disease without harming body tissues
3 of the 5 recorded senses carry no synonym, antonym or related term, so they are not shown above. Every sense, with its definition and examples, is on the full entry for antiseptic.
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for antiseptic come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.