antirheumatic
adjective, noun
antirheumatic is an adjective meaning “Serving to prevent or counter rheumatism” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-N-T-I-R-H-E-U-M-A-T-I-C, and it appears about once in every 47 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does antirheumatic mean?
adjective
- 1
Serving to prevent or counter rheumatism.
noun
- 1
A drug that prevents or counters rheumatism.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of antirheumatic
- more antirheumatic comparative
- most antirheumatic superlative
- antirheumatics plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is antirheumatic?
Antirheumatic appears about once in every 47 million words in written English, the 211,986th 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).
Antirheumatic in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense serving to prevent or counter rheumatism:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | antirreumático |
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 antirheumatic come from?
From anti- + rheumatic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).