pharmaceutic

1. 1.

   drug or medicine that is prepared or dispensed in pharmacies and used in medical treatment

   Synonymspharmaceutical

   Broadermedicine

   Narrowerradiopharmaceuticalthrombolytic

1. 1.

   of or relating to pharmacy or pharmacists

   “the pharmaceutical industry”

   Synonymspharmaceutical

Other forms of pharmaceutic

plural

pharmaceutics·

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 pharmaceutic

What does pharmaceutic mean?

pharmaceutic means "drug or medicine that is prepared or dispensed in pharmacies and used in medical treatment". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pharmaceutic?

pharmaceutic has 5 syllables: phar-ma-ce-u-tic. The stress falls on "u".

What is another word for pharmaceutic?

Close synonyms include pharmaceutical, pharmaceutical. 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 pharmaceutic a common word?

pharmaceutic 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.