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antibacterial

antibacterial adjective: killing or inhibiting bacteria.

Adjective

antibacterial (not comparable)

  1. Killing or inhibiting bacteria.
    • This drug has an antibacterial effect.
    • Many genes with reproductive roles also have antibacterial and immune functions, which indicate that the threat of microbial attack on the sperm or egg may be a major influence on rapid evolution during reproduction.2013 May-June, Katrina G. Claw, “Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3
  2. (archaic) Opposing the theory that diseases are caused by bacteria.

Noun

antibacterial (plural antibacterials)

  1. A drug having the effect of killing or inhibiting bacteria.
    • Many household products contain antibacterials.

antibacterial meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Tagalog and Indonesian

antibacterial in Tamil

பக்ட்டீரியப்பகை

antibacterial in Urdu

جَراثیم کُش, دافع جَراثیم, ضِد جَراثیم

antibacterial in Tagalog

killing or inhibiting bacteria
laban-ishayin

antibacterial in Indonesian

antibacterial drug
antibakteria

Examples of antibacterial in a sentence

  • Remove everyday germs and neutralise cooking odours with our antibacterial handwash.
  • Avoid cleaning your brewing vessel and equipment with antibacterial soap because SCOBYs contain bacteria.
  • Wet-wipes and antibacterial no-water gel hand-washes are the archaeologist’s friend on site.

All 15 example sentences with antibacterial

Forms of antibacterial

pluralantibacterials

Origin of antibacterial

From anti- + bacterial.

Words formed from antibacterial

Questions about antibacterial

What does antibacterial mean?
Antibacterial means killing or inhibiting bacteria.
What is antibacterial in Tamil?
Antibacterial in Tamil is பக்ட்டீரியப்பகை. See Antibacterial meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is antibacterial?
Antibacterial can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near antibacterial in the dictionary

  1. antibacchic
  2. antibacchii
  3. antibacchius
  4. antibacillary
  5. antibacklash
  6. antibacterial
  7. antibacterially
  8. antibacterials
  9. antibactericidal
  10. antibacteriolytic
  11. antibacteriophage

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: antibacterial (page history and authors); antibacterial (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); antibacterial (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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