blocking agent

Questions about blocking agent

What is another word for blocking agent?

It depends which blocking agent you mean. In the sense “a class of drugs that inhibit (block) some biological process”, the synonyms are blocker. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of blocking agent?

WordNet records no antonym for blocking agent. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for blocking agent come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of blocking agent

• Full entry for blocking agentAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for blocking agentWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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