antiseptic

1. 1.

   a substance that destroys micro-organisms that carry disease without harming body tissues

   Broadermedicine

   Narrowerchloraminechlorhexidinegramicidiniodoformmerbrominemild silver proteinneomycinthimerosaltincture of iodine

Other forms of antiseptic

plural

antiseptics·

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 antiseptic

What does antiseptic mean?

antiseptic means "thoroughly clean and free of or destructive to disease-causing organisms". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in antiseptic?

antiseptic has 4 syllables: an-ti-sep-tic. The stress falls on "sep". In IPA it is /ˌæntəˈsɛptɪk/.

What is the opposite of antiseptic?

The recorded antonyms are septic.

Is antiseptic a common word?

antiseptic is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. 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 antiseptic?

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