bacteriostatic

1. 1.

   of or relating to or causing bacteriostasis

Questions about bacteriostatic

What does bacteriostatic mean?

bacteriostatic means "of or relating to or causing bacteriostasis".

How many syllables are in bacteriostatic?

bacteriostatic has 6 syllables and divides as bac-te-ri-o-sta-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.

Is bacteriostatic a common word?

bacteriostatic 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.