medicament

Other forms of medicament

plural

medicaments·

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 medicament

What does medicament mean?

medicament means "(medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease".

How many syllables are in medicament?

medicament has 4 syllables: me-di-ca-ment. The stress falls on "di".

What is another word for medicament?

Close synonyms include medicine, medication, medicinal drug. 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 medicament a common word?

medicament 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.