antithyroid
adjective
antithyroid is an adjective meaning “Reducing the production or effects of thyroid hormones” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-N-T-I-T-H-Y-R-O-I-D, and it appears about once in every 69 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does antithyroid mean?
adjective
- 1
Reducing the production or effects of thyroid hormones.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is antithyroid?
Antithyroid appears about once in every 69 million words in written English, the 262,293rd 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).
Antithyroid in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense reducing the production or effects of thyroid hormones:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | antitireoide |
| Spanish | antitiroideos |
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.