antimuscarinic
adjective, noun
antimuscarinic is an adjective meaning “That disrupts the action of muscarinic acetylcholine receptors, and/or of muscarine itself, in the nervous system” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-N-T-I-M-U-S-C-A-R-I-N-I-C, and it appears about once in every 83 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does antimuscarinic mean?
adjective
- 1
That disrupts the action of muscarinic acetylcholine receptors, and/or of muscarine itself, in the nervous system.
noun
- 1
An antimuscarinic drug.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of antimuscarinic
- more antimuscarinic comparative
- most antimuscarinic superlative
- antimuscarinics plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is antimuscarinic?
Antimuscarinic appears about once in every 83 million words in written English, the 290,185th 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).
Antimuscarinic in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense that disrupts the action of muscarine on the nervous system:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | antimuscarínico |
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 antimuscarinic come from?
From anti- + muscarinic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).