antithyroid

1. 1.

   having the effect of counteracting excessive thyroid activity

   “antithyroid drugs”

Questions about antithyroid

What does antithyroid mean?

antithyroid means "having the effect of counteracting excessive thyroid activity".

How many syllables are in antithyroid?

antithyroid has 4 syllables and divides as an-ti-thy-roid 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 antithyroid a common word?

antithyroid 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.