Antiseptic Synonyms and Antonyms

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Free of germs
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. clean
  2. cleanly
  3. immaculate
  4. germ-free
  5. spotless
  6. stainless
  7. unsoiled
  8. sterile
  9. unsullied
Antonyms:
  1. unclean
  2. contaminated
  3. polluted
  4. unsanitary
  5. unsterile
Destructive of germs
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. prophylactic
  2. aseptic
  3. purifying
  4. hygienic
  5. antibacterial
  6. medicated
  7. germ-destroying
  8. germicidal
  9. disinfectant
  10. bactericidal
  11. sterilizing
  12. antibiotic
Antonyms:
  1. septic
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Words Related to Antiseptic

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. medicine
  2. sulfa-drug
  3. anti-septic
  4. expectorant
  5. emollient
  6. anti-bacterial
  7. ointment
  8. anti-fungal
  9. antifungal
  10. astringent
  11. iodine-based
  12. styptic
  13. demulcent
  14. unperfumed

Antiseptic Sentence Examples

  • The antiseptic pine-laced air from the hallway made her nose wrinkle.

  • Thus if a little diphtheritic sputum were coughed into a person's eye, or some blood containing anthrax bacilli were to touch a raw spot upon the hand, the removal of microbes in either case by washing with simple water might be regarded as a means of passive defence, whilst washing them away with an antiseptic lotion might be regarded as active defence, because the antiseptic would tend not only to remove but to destroy the microbes.

  • This releases chloric acid, which, being an extremely powerful antiseptic, kills the bacteria to which the ulcers are due.

  • Its principal action is as an antiseptic and disinfectant.

  • No case' of so-called " spontaneous generation " has withstood rigid investigation; but the discussion contributed to more exact ideas as to the ubiquity, minuteness, and high powers of resistance to physical agents of the spores of Schizomycetes, and led to more exact ideas of antiseptic treatments.

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