antiviral

1. 1.

   inhibiting or stopping the growth and reproduction of viruses

Other forms of antiviral

plural

antivirals·

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 antiviral

What does antiviral mean?

antiviral means "any drug that destroys viruses". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in antiviral?

antiviral has 4 syllables: an-ti-vi-ral. The stress falls on "vi". In IPA it is /ˌæntiˈvaɪɹəl/.

What is another word for antiviral?

Close synonyms include antiviral agent, antiviral drug. 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.

Is antiviral a common word?

antiviral 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 antiviral?

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