anovulant

Other forms of anovulant

plural

anovulants·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about anovulant

What does anovulant mean?

anovulant means "a contraceptive in the form of a pill containing estrogen and progestin to inhibit ovulation and so prevent conception".

How many syllables are in anovulant?

anovulant has 4 syllables: a-no-vu-lant. The stress falls on "no".

What is another word for anovulant?

Close synonyms include pill, birth control pill, contraceptive pill, oral contraceptive pill, oral contraceptive. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is anovulant a common word?

anovulant is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.