antistatic
adjective, noun
antistatic is an adjective meaning “Preventing the buildup of static electricity” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-N-T-I-S-T-A-T-I-C, and it appears about once in every 19 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does antistatic mean?
adjective
- 1
Preventing the buildup of static electricity.
noun
- 1
An agent or substance that prevents the buildup of static electricity.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce antistatic?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-NaomiAmethyst-antistatic.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of antistatic
- anti-static
- antistatics plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is antistatic?
Antistatic appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 130,282nd 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).
Antistatic in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | antiestático |
| German | Antistatikum |
| Spanish | antiestático |
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 antistatic come from?
From anti- + static.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).