What part of speech is antimicrobial?

Antimicrobial can be categorized as a noun and an adjective.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. antimicrobial is a noun, singular of antimicrobials.
  • 2. antimicrobial is an adjective.

Inflections

Noun

Adjective

  • Positive
    Comparative
    Superlative
  • more antimicrobial
    most antimicrobial
  • Positive: antimicrobial 
  • Comparative: more antimicrobial
  • Superlative: most antimicrobial

What does antimicrobial mean?

Definitions

Adjective

antimicrobial - capable of destroying or inhibiting the growth of disease-causing microorganisms

Noun

antimicrobial - An agent that destroys microbes, inhibits their growth, or prevents or counteracts their pathogenic action.

Examples of antimicrobial

#   Sentence  
1. adj. Last year, a U.N. report predicted growing antimicrobial resistance could cause 10 million deaths each year by 2050 and trigger a financial crisis.
Sentence  
adj.
Last year, a U.N. report predicted growing antimicrobial resistance could cause 10 million deaths each year by 2050 and trigger a financial crisis.

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