anticholinergic

Other forms of anticholinergic

plural

anticholinergics·

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 anticholinergic

What does anticholinergic mean?

anticholinergic means "a substance that opposes or blocks the action of acetylcholine". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in anticholinergic?

anticholinergic has 6 syllables and divides as an-ti-cho-li-ner-gic under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for anticholinergic?

Close synonyms include anticholinergic 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.

What is the opposite of anticholinergic?

The recorded antonyms are cholinergic.

Is anticholinergic a common word?

anticholinergic 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.