antibiotic

1. 1.

   of or relating to antibiotic drugs

Other forms of antibiotic

plural

antibiotics·

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 antibiotic

What does antibiotic mean?

antibiotic means "a chemical substance derivable from a mold or bacterium that can kill microorganisms and cure bacterial infections". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in antibiotic?

antibiotic has 5 syllables: an-ti-bi-o-tic. The stress falls on "o". In IPA it is /ˌæntibaɪˈɑtɪk/.

What is another word for antibiotic?

Close synonyms include antibiotic drug. 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 antibiotic a common word?

antibiotic is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. 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 antibiotic?

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