antiviral agent

Questions about antiviral agent

What does antiviral agent mean?

antiviral agent means "any drug that destroys viruses".

What is another word for antiviral agent?

Close synonyms include antiviral, 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 agent a common word?

antiviral agent 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.