antidrug
adjective
antidrug is an adjective meaning “Against drugs; advocating against drug use” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-N-T-I-D-R-U-G and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 38 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does antidrug mean?
adjective
- 1
Against drugs; advocating against drug use.
The antidrug administration cracked down on cocaine sales.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce antidrug?
Antidrug has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of antidrug
- more antidrug comparative
- most antidrug superlative
- anti-drug
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is antidrug?
Antidrug appears about once in every 38 million words in written English, the 189,524th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Antidrug in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense against drug use:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | antidrogue, anti-drogue |
| Portuguese | antidrogas, antidroga |
| Spanish | antidroga |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does antidrug come from?
From anti- + drug.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).