antiepileptic
adjective, noun
antiepileptic is an adjective meaning “Acting to prevent epileptic seizures” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-N-T-I-E-P-I-L-E-P-T-I-C, and it appears about once in every 11 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does antiepileptic mean?
adjective
- 1
Acting to prevent epileptic seizures
This drug has an antiepileptic effect.
noun
- 1
A drug which acts to prevent epileptic seizures
He was prescribed a course of antiepileptics.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of antiepileptic
- antiepileptics plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is antiepileptic?
Antiepileptic appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 100,430th 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).
Antiepileptic in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense acting to prevent epilepic seizures:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | antiepilético |
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 antiepileptic come from?
From anti- + epileptic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).