antibacterial

1. 1.

   destroying bacteria or inhibiting their growth

Other forms of antibacterial

plural

antibacterials·

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 antibacterial

What does antibacterial mean?

antibacterial means "any drug that destroys bacteria or inhibits their growth". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in antibacterial?

antibacterial has 6 syllables: an-ti-bac-ter-i-al. The stress falls on "ter". In IPA it is /ˌæntibækˈtɪɹiəl/.

What is another word for antibacterial?

Close synonyms include antibacterial drug, bactericide. 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 antibacterial a common word?

antibacterial 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.

What rhymes with antibacterial?

4 words rhyme with antibacterial. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.