antiviral drug

1. 1.

   any drug that destroys viruses

   Synonymsantiviralantiviral agent

   Broadermedicine

   Narrowerdideoxycytosinedideoxyinosineinterferonprotease inhibitorreverse transcriptase inhibitorribavirin

Questions about antiviral drug

What does antiviral drug mean?

antiviral drug means "any drug that destroys viruses".

What is another word for antiviral drug?

Close synonyms include antiviral, antiviral agent. 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 drug a common word?

antiviral drug 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.