proinflammatory

1. 1.

   tending to cause inflammation

   Synonymspro-inflammatory

   Similarunhealthy

Questions about proinflammatory

What does proinflammatory mean?

proinflammatory means "tending to cause inflammation".

How many syllables are in proinflammatory?

proinflammatory has 5 syllables: proin-flam-ma-to-ry. The stress falls on "ma".

What is another word for proinflammatory?

Close synonyms include pro-inflammatory. 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 proinflammatory a common word?

proinflammatory 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.