nonpurulent

1. 1.

   not containing pus

   Similarantiseptic

Questions about nonpurulent

What does nonpurulent mean?

nonpurulent means "not containing pus".

How many syllables are in nonpurulent?

nonpurulent has 4 syllables and divides as non-pu-ru-lent 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 nonpurulent a common word?

nonpurulent 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.