antiphlogistic

1. 1.

   counteracting inflammation

   Similarantagonistic

Questions about antiphlogistic

What does antiphlogistic mean?

antiphlogistic means "counteracting inflammation".

How many syllables are in antiphlogistic?

antiphlogistic has 5 syllables and divides as an-tiph-lo-gi-stic 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.

Is antiphlogistic a common word?

antiphlogistic 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.