medical

Other forms of medical

plural

medicals·

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 medical

What does medical mean?

medical means "relating to the study or practice of medicine". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in medical?

medical has 3 syllables: med-i-cal. The stress falls on "med". In IPA it is /ˈmɛdəkəl/.

What is another word for medical?

Close synonyms include aesculapian, checkup, medical checkup, medical examination, medical exam. 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.

What is the opposite of medical?

The recorded antonyms are surgical.

Is medical a common word?

medical is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.