antiemetic

Questions about antiemetic

What does antiemetic mean?

antiemetic means "a drug that prevents or alleviates nausea and vomiting".

How many syllables are in antiemetic?

antiemetic has 4 syllables and divides as an-tie-me-tic 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 antiemetic?

Close synonyms include antiemetic 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 antiemetic a common word?

antiemetic 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.