antifungal

1. 1.

   capable of destroying fungi

   Synonymsfungicidal

Other forms of antifungal

plural

antifungals·

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 antifungal

What does antifungal mean?

antifungal means "any agent that destroys or prevents the growth of fungi". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in antifungal?

antifungal has 4 syllables: an-ti-fun-gal. The stress falls on "fun". In IPA it is /ˌænˌtaɪˈfʌŋɡəl/.

What is another word for antifungal?

Close synonyms include antifungal agent, fungicide, antimycotic, antimycotic agent, fungicidal. 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 antifungal a common word?

antifungal 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.

What rhymes with antifungal?

1 word rhymes with antifungal. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.