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suppurative

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.35 in modern English

Syllables
sup-pu-ra-tive
IPA
18
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of a disease or medical condition, causing suppuration: producing, or causing the production of, pus.

noun

A medicine that causes suppuration.

Etymology

From suppurate + -ive, from Modern Latin suppūrātīvus, from suppūrō.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

more suppurative (comparative) most suppurative (superlative) suppuratives (plural)

Derived Forms

antisuppurative fibrinosuppurative necrosuppurative nonsuppurative postsuppurative presuppurative suppuratively unsuppurative

Phrases

chronic suppurative otitis media

Frequently Paired Words

suppurant suppuration

Questions

What does suppurative mean?
Of a disease or medical condition, causing suppuration: producing, or causing the production of, pus.
Where does suppurative come from?
It is traced to Latin.

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