ritonavir

1. 1.

   a protease inhibitor (trade name Norvir) used in treating HIV

   SynonymsNorvir

   Broaderprotease inhibitor

Other forms of ritonavir

plural

ritonavirs·

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 ritonavir

What does ritonavir mean?

ritonavir means "a protease inhibitor (trade name Norvir) used in treating HIV".

How many syllables are in ritonavir?

ritonavir has 4 syllables: ri-to-na-vir. The stress falls on "to".

What is another word for ritonavir?

Close synonyms include Norvir. 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 ritonavir a common word?

ritonavir 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.