chemotherapeutic
adjective, noun
chemotherapeutic is an adjective meaning “Of or having to do with chemotherapy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-H-E-M-O-T-H-E-R-A-P-E-U-T-I-C, and it appears about once in every 6 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does chemotherapeutic mean?
adjective
- 1
Of or having to do with chemotherapy.
noun
- 1
A chemical agent used in chemotherapy
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of chemotherapeutic
- chemotherapeutics plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is chemotherapeutic?
Chemotherapeutic appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 74,980th 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).
Chemotherapeutic in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | chimiothérapeutique |
| German | chemotherapeutisch , Chemotherapeutikum |
| Portuguese | quimioterapêutico, quimioterapêutica |
| Spanish | quimioterapéutico , quimioterápico |
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 chemotherapeutic come from?
From chemo- + therapeutic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).