antineoplastic

1. 1.

   any of several drugs that control or kill neoplastic cells; used in chemotherapy to kill cancer cells; all have unpleasant side effects that may include nausea and vomiting and hair loss and suppression of bone marrow function

   Synonymsantineoplastic drugcancer drug

   Broadercytotoxic drug

   Narroweralkylating agentantimetaboliteantineoplastic antibioticasparaginasefloxuridinelomustinemelphalanperiwinkle plant derivativeprocarbazinethioguanine

1. 1.

   used in the treatment of cancer

   “anticancer drug”

   “an antineoplastic effect”

   Synonymsanticancerantitumorantitumour

Other forms of antineoplastic

plural

antineoplastics·

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 antineoplastic

What does antineoplastic mean?

antineoplastic means "any of several drugs that control or kill neoplastic cells; used in chemotherapy to kill cancer cells; all have unpleasant side effects that may include nausea and vomiting and hair loss and suppression of bone marrow function". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in antineoplastic?

antineoplastic has 6 syllables: an-ti-ne-o-pla-stic. The stress falls on "pla".

What is another word for antineoplastic?

Close synonyms include antineoplastic drug, cancer drug, anticancer, antitumor, antitumour. 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 antineoplastic a common word?

antineoplastic 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.