| NOUN | artifact | depressant, sedative, sedative drug, downer | a drug that reduces excitability and calms a person |
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| ADJECTIVE | all | depressant | capable of depressing physiological or psychological activity or response by a chemical agent |
| Sounds | dihpreh'sahnt | |
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| Rhymes | abandonment ... wonderment: 671 rhymes with ahnt... | |
| Meaning | capable of depressing physiological or psychological activity or response by a chemical agent. | |
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| Narrower | ataractic, ataraxic, sedative, tranquilizing, tranquillizing, tranquilising, tranquillising | tending to soothe or tranquilize |
| narcotic, narcotizing, narcotising | inducing stupor or narcosis | |
| relaxant | tending to relax or relieve muscular or nervous tension | |
| soporific, soporiferous, somniferous, somnific, hypnogogic, hypnagogic | sleep inducing | |
| Opposite | stimulative | capable of arousing or accelerating physiological or psychological activity or response by a chemical agent |
| Spanish | depresivo | |
| Nouns | depressant | a drug that reduces excitability and calms a person |
| Verbs | depress | lower someone's spirits |
| Meaning | A drug that reduces excitability and calms a person. | |
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| Synonyms | sedative, sedative drug, downer | |
| Narrower | chloral hydrate | A colorless crystalline drug used as a sedative |
| glutethimide, Doriden | sedative (trade name Doriden) used to treat some sleep disorders | |
| sedative-hypnotic, sedative-hypnotic drug | A sedative that depresses activity of the central nervous system and reduces anxiety and induces sleep | |
| Broader | drug of abuse, street drug | A drug that is taken for nonmedicinal reasons (usually for mind-altering effects) |
| medicine, medication, medicament, medicinal drug | (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease | |
| Spanish | ansiolítico, calmante, depresor, sedante, sedativo, tranquilizante | |
| Catalan | calmant, depressor, sedant | |
| Adjectives | depressant | capable of depressing physiological or psychological activity or response by a chemical agent |
| Verbs | depress | lower someone's spirits |
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