naltrexone

1. 1.

   an oral antagonist against the action of opiates

   Broadernarcotic antagonist

Other forms of naltrexone

plural

naltrexones·

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 naltrexone

What does naltrexone mean?

naltrexone means "an oral antagonist against the action of opiates".

How many syllables are in naltrexone?

naltrexone has 3 syllables and divides as nal-trex-one 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.