alprazolam

1. 1.

   an antianxiety agent (trade name Xanax) of the benzodiazepine class

   SynonymsXanax

   Broaderbenzodiazepine

   trade name

Other forms of alprazolam

plural

alprazolams·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about alprazolam

What does alprazolam mean?

alprazolam means "an antianxiety agent (trade name Xanax) of the benzodiazepine class".

How many syllables are in alprazolam?

alprazolam has 4 syllables: al-pra-zo-lam. The stress falls on "pra".

What is another word for alprazolam?

Close synonyms include Xanax. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is alprazolam a common word?

alprazolam is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.