neurotoxic

1. 1.

   poisonous to nerves or nerve cells

Questions about neurotoxic

What does neurotoxic mean?

neurotoxic means "poisonous to nerves or nerve cells".

How many syllables are in neurotoxic?

neurotoxic has 5 syllables and divides as ne-u-ro-tox-ic 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.

Is neurotoxic a common word?

neurotoxic 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.