antisyphilitic

1. 1.

   a drug (or other chemical agent) that is effective against syphilis

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Other forms of antisyphilitic

plural

antisyphilitics·

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 antisyphilitic

What does antisyphilitic mean?

antisyphilitic means "a drug (or other chemical agent) that is effective against syphilis".

How many syllables are in antisyphilitic?

antisyphilitic has 6 syllables and divides as an-ti-sy-phi-li-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.