Definitions for antiseptic

antiseptic an·ti·sep·tic

Spelling: [an-tuh-sep-tik]
IPA: /ˌæn təˈsɛp tɪk/

Antiseptic is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 651 anagrams from letters in antiseptic (aceiinpstt).

Definitions for antiseptic

adjective

  1. pertaining to or affecting antisepsis.
  2. free from or cleaned of germs and other microorganisms.
  3. exceptionally clean or neat.
  4. free of contamination or pollution.

noun

  1. an antiseptic agent.

Origin of antiseptic

First recorded in 1745-55; anti- + septic

Examples for antiseptic

Before antibiotics, most newborn eyes were treated with an antiseptic, and Barnes pushed Argyrol as the cure of choice.

The latter film offered a melancholy gloss on high-end tourism against the antiseptic backdrop of a Hyatt Hotel in downtown Tokyo.

Crystals of iodine as opposed to permanganate of potash for antiseptic he discussed.

And I have to have whiskey because alcohol is both an antiseptic and an anesthetic.

Soap, as an antiseptic, 326;its relation to hard and soft water, 134.

Irritant, cathartic, stimulant, and antiseptic; one to one and a half pounds.

Getting off the elevator at the fourth floor, he thumped across the antiseptic hallway.

How did that survive the vetting at this often timid and antiseptic White House?

Compare "antiseptic," "antinomian," "ultramontane," "semicircle."

Hardly an antiseptic, Doctor; wouldn't you say, rather, a cauterizing agent.

Word Value for antiseptic
Scrable

14

Words with friends

17

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