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Defenition of the word antiseptic

    • Defenition of the word antiseptic

      • Method for treating or preventing infectious diseases using antiseptic methods such as sterilization.
      • (extended sense) of exceptionally clean language; "lyrics as antiseptic as Sunday School"
      • clean and honest; "antiseptic financial practices"
      • thoroughly clean and free of or destructive to disease-causing organisms; "doctors in antiseptic green coats"; "the antiseptic effect of alcohol"; "it is said that marjoram has antiseptic qualities"
      • freeing from error or corruption; "the antiseptic effect of sturdy criticism
      • a substance that destroys disease-causing micro-organisms without harming body tissues
      • made free from live bacteria or other microorganisms; "sterilized instruments"
      • a substance that destroys micro-organisms that carry disease without harming body tissues
      • freeing from error or corruption; "the antiseptic effect of sturdy criticism"
      • devoid of objectionable language
      • clean and honest
      • thoroughly clean and free of or destructive to disease-causing organisms
      • freeing from error or corruption

    Synonyms for the word antiseptic

      • anodyne
      • antibacterial
      • bland
      • clean
      • colorless
      • dull
      • insipid
      • pure
      • sterile
      • sterilized
      • tame
      • uncontaminated
      • unexciting
      • uninteresting

    Similar words in the antiseptic

      • antiseptic
      • antiseptically
      • antiseptics
      • aseptic
      • bactericidal
      • clean
      • cleansing
      • disinfectant
      • germfree
      • germicidal
      • healthful
      • incorrupt
      • nonpurulent
      • purifying
      • sterile
      • uninfected
      • unobjectionable

    Hyponyms for the word antiseptic

      • Argyrol
      • chloramine
      • chloramine-T
      • chlorhexidine
      • fradicin
      • gramicidin
      • iodine
      • iodoform
      • merbromine
      • Mercurochrome
      • Merthiolate
      • mild silver protein
      • Neobiotic
      • neomycin
      • sodium ethylmercurithiosalicylate
      • thimerosal
      • tincture of iodine
      • triiodomethane

    Hypernyms for the word antiseptic

      • medicament
      • medication
      • medicinal drug
      • medicine

    Antonyms for the word antiseptic

      • septic

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