nonsteroidal

Other forms of nonsteroidal

plural

nonsteroidals·

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 nonsteroidal

What does nonsteroidal mean?

nonsteroidal means "an organic compound that does no contain a steroid". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in nonsteroidal?

nonsteroidal has 4 syllables: non-ste-roi-dal. The stress falls on "ste".

What is another word for nonsteroidal?

Close synonyms include nonsteroid. 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.

What is the opposite of nonsteroidal?

The recorded antonyms are steroidal.

Is nonsteroidal a common word?

nonsteroidal 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.