antianxiety agent

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   a drug used to reduce stress or tension without reducing mental clarity

   Synonymstranquilizertranquillizertranquilliserataractic drugataractic agentataractic

   Broaderpsychotropic agentsedative-hypnotic

   Narrowermajor tranquilizerminor tranquilizer

Questions about antianxiety agent

What does antianxiety agent mean?

antianxiety agent means "a drug used to reduce stress or tension without reducing mental clarity".

What is another word for antianxiety agent?

Close synonyms include tranquilizer, tranquillizer, tranquilliser, ataractic drug, ataractic agent. 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 antianxiety agent a common word?

antianxiety agent 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.