corroborant

1. 1.

   used of a medicine that is strengthening

   Similarinvigorating

   archaism · medicine

Questions about corroborant

What does corroborant mean?

corroborant means "used of a medicine that is strengthening".

How many syllables are in corroborant?

corroborant has 4 syllables and divides as cor-ro-bo-rant 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 corroborant a common word?

corroborant 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.