expectorant

1. 1.

   a medicine promoting expectoration

   Synonymsexpectorator

   Broadermedicine

   NarrowerRobitussin

Other forms of expectorant

plural

expectorants·

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 expectorant

What does expectorant mean?

expectorant means "a medicine promoting expectoration".

How many syllables are in expectorant?

expectorant has 4 syllables: ex-pec-to-rant. The stress falls on "pec". In IPA it is /ɪkˈspɛktɚənt/.

What is another word for expectorant?

Close synonyms include expectorator. 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 expectorant a common word?

expectorant 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.