antiproliferative
adjective, noun
antiproliferative is an adjective meaning “Tending to suppress cell growth, especially the growth of malignant cells into surrounding tissue” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-N-T-I-P-R-O-L-I-F-E-R-A-T-I-V-E, and it appears about once in every 30 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does antiproliferative mean?
adjective
- 1
Tending to suppress cell growth, especially the growth of malignant cells into surrounding tissue
noun
- 1
Such a material
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of antiproliferative
- antiproliferatives plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is antiproliferative?
Antiproliferative appears about once in every 30 million words in written English, the 167,786th 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).
Antiproliferative in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Tending to suppress cell growth:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | antiprolifératif |
| Portuguese | antiproliferativo |
| Spanish | antiproliferativo |
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 antiproliferative come from?
From anti- + proliferative.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).