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: an-ti-cho-li-ner-gic. The stress falls on "ner".

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.