benadryl

1. 1.

   antihistamine (trade name Benadryl) used to treat allergic reactions involving the nasal passages (hay fever) and also to treat motion sickness

   Synonymsdiphenhydramine

   Broaderantihistamine

Other forms of benadryl

plural

benadryls·

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 benadryl

What does benadryl mean?

benadryl means "antihistamine (trade name Benadryl) used to treat allergic reactions involving the nasal passages (hay fever) and also to treat motion sickness".

How many syllables are in benadryl?

benadryl has 3 syllables: be-na-dryl. The stress falls on "be".

What is another word for benadryl?

Close synonyms include diphenhydramine. 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 benadryl a common word?

benadryl 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.