adjuvant
English · Français · Română · Thesaurus
AI In plain words
Writing a short explanation…
Written by a house AI from the entry below, in your language. The entry itself is the source.
adjuvant
- /ˈæd͡ʒʊv(ə)nt/ UK
- /ˈæd͡ʒəv(ə)nt/ US
Where it comes from
Learned borrowing from Latin adiuvant-, adjuvant- + English -ant (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘exhibiting a condition or process’; and forming agent nouns). Adiuvant-, adjuvant- are oblique stems of adiuvāns, adjuvāns (“assisting, helping”), the present active participle of adiuvō (“to assist, help; to be useful; etc.”), from ad- (“prefix meaning ‘to; toward’”) + iuvō (“to aid, help; to save”) (possibly from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ewH- (“to assist, help; to save”)).
Adjective sense 3 (“of a form of therapy or treatment: additional, supplementary”) and noun sense 1.4 (“additive which aids or modifies the action of the principal ingredient of a drug”) are possibly derived from French adjuvant (adjective, noun).
adjective more adjuvant · most adjuvant
-
Providing assistance or help; assistive, facilitative, helpful.
Similar: assisting, auxiliary, complementary, contributory, helping, supporting
- Enhancing the immune response to an antigen; also, containing a substance having such an effect.
- Of a form of therapy or treatment: additional, supplementary; specifically (oncology), of a cancer treatment: given after removal of a primary tumour. Adjuvant chemotherapy, [Paul] Carbone conjectured, could be the surgeon's little helper. It would eradicate microscopic deposits of cancer left behind after surgery, thus extirpating any remnant reservoirs of malignancy in the body in early breast cancer— […]
noun adjuvants
- An additive (often a separate product) that enhances the efficacy of a pesticide, but has little or no pesticidal effect itself.
- A substance enhancing the immune response to an antigen. The well-known tropic action of immune serum as an adjuvant to phagocytosis suggested early in our studies that we might here be dealing with a similar phenomenon.
- A form of therapy or treatment which is additional or supplementary to another, or which enhances the effectiveness of another.
- An additive which aids or modifies the action of the principal ingredient of a drug.
Translations
Every language
adj providing assistance or help — see also helpful
| Español | adyuvante |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | hilfreich, unterstützend |
adj of a form of therapy or treatment: additional, supplementary; of a cancer treatment: given after removal of a primary tumour
| Español | adyuvante |
|---|---|
| Português | adjuvante |
| Français | adjuvant |
| Italiano | adiuvante, coadiuvante |
Talk about this word "adjuvant." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/adjuvant. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. adjuvant. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/adjuvant "adjuvant." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/adjuvant.Cite this
@misc{adjuvant_2026,
title = {adjuvant},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/adjuvant},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
