Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

polypharmaceutical

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: polyphar-ma-ceu-ti-cal
IPA

34

Scrabble Score

18

Letters

5

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Containing several drugs

adj

Of or pertaining to polypharmacy

noun

A preparation containing several drugs

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-der. Proto-Indo-European *polh₁ús Ancient Greek πολῠ́ς (polŭ́s)lbor. English poly- English pharmaceutical English polypharmaceutical From poly- + pharmaceutical.

Inflected Forms

more polypharmaceutical (comparative) most polypharmaceutical (superlative) polypharmaceuticals (plural)

Questions

What does polypharmaceutical mean?: Containing several drugs
Where does polypharmaceutical come from?: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-der. Proto-Indo-European *polh₁ús Ancient Greek πολῠ́ς (polŭ́s)lbor. English poly- English pharmaceutical English polypharmaceutical From poly- + pharmaceutical.

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