antibiotic drug

1. 1.

   a chemical substance derivable from a mold or bacterium that can kill microorganisms and cure bacterial infections

   “when antibiotics were first discovered they were called wonder drugs”

   Synonymsantibiotic

   Broaderantibacterial

   Narroweractinomycinamphotericinantimycinantineoplastic antibioticaztreonambacitracincarbomycincephaloglycincephaloridinecephalosporin

Questions about antibiotic drug

What does antibiotic drug mean?

antibiotic drug means "a chemical substance derivable from a mold or bacterium that can kill microorganisms and cure bacterial infections".

What is another word for antibiotic drug?

Close synonyms include antibiotic. 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 drug a common word?

antibiotic drug is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.