antimalarial drug

Questions about antimalarial drug

What does antimalarial drug mean?

antimalarial drug means "a medicinal drug used to prevent or treat malaria".

What is another word for antimalarial drug?

Close synonyms include antimalarial. 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 antimalarial drug a common word?

antimalarial 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.