neuroleptic drug

Questions about neuroleptic drug

What is another word for neuroleptic drug?

It depends which neuroleptic drug you mean. In the sense “tranquilizer used to treat psychotic conditions when a calming effect is desired”, the synonyms are major tranquilizer, major tranquillizer, major tranquilliser, antipsychotic drug, antipsychotic agent, antipsychotic, neuroleptic agent, neuroleptic. Across all 1 sense there are 8 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of neuroleptic drug?

WordNet records no antonym for neuroleptic drug. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for neuroleptic drug come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of neuroleptic drug

• Full entry for neuroleptic drugAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for neuroleptic drugWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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