| NOUN | artifact | sedative, sedative drug, depressant, downer | a drug that reduces excitability and calms a person |
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| ADJECTIVE | all | sedative, ataractic, ataraxic, tranquilizing, tranquillizing, tranquilising, tranquillising | tending to soothe or tranquilize |
| Sounds | seh'dahtihv | |
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| Rhymes | abortive ... vituperative: 304 rhymes with ihv... | |
| Meaning | tending to soothe or tranquilize. | |
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| Example | "took a hot drink with sedative properties before going to bed" | |
| Synonyms | ataractic, ataraxic, tranquilizing, tranquillizing, tranquilising, tranquillising | |
| Broader | depressant | capable of depressing physiological or psychological activity or response by a chemical agent |
| Spanish | ataráxico, calmante, sedante, sedativo, tranquilizante | |
| Catalan | ataràctic, calmant, sedant, tranquil·litzant | |
| Nouns | sedative | a drug that reduces excitability and calms a person |
| Verbs | sedate | cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to |
| Meaning | A drug that reduces excitability and calms a person. | |
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| Synonyms | sedative drug, depressant, 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 | sedative | tending to soothe or tranquilize |
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