zestril

Questions about zestril

What does zestril mean?

zestril means "an ACE inhibiting drug (trade names Prinival or Zestril) administered as an antihypertensive and after heart attacks".

How many syllables are in zestril?

zestril has 2 syllables and divides as ze-stril 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.

What is another word for zestril?

Close synonyms include lisinopril, Prinival. 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 zestril a common word?

zestril 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for zestril come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.