microbic

1. 1.

   of or involving or caused by or being microbes

   “microbial warfare”

   Synonymsmicrobial

Questions about microbic

What does microbic mean?

microbic means "of or involving or caused by or being microbes".

How many syllables are in microbic?

microbic has 3 syllables and divides as mi-cro-bic 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.

What is another word for microbic?

Close synonyms include microbial. 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 microbic a common word?

microbic 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.