antipyretic

Questions about antipyretic

What does antipyretic mean?

antipyretic means "any medicine that lowers body temperature to prevent or alleviate fever". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in antipyretic?

antipyretic has 5 syllables and divides as an-ti-py-re-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 antipyretic?

Close synonyms include febrifuge. 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.

What is the opposite of antipyretic?

The recorded antonyms are pyretic.

Is antipyretic a common word?

antipyretic 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.