antianxiety drug

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   a tranquilizer used to relieve anxiety and reduce tension and irritability

   Synonymsminor tranquilizerminor tranquillizerminor tranquilliseranxiolyticanxiolytic drug

   Broadertranquilizer

   Narrowerbenzodiazepinebuspironeflurazepamhydroxyzine hydrochloridemeprobamateoxazepamperphenazine

Questions about antianxiety drug

What does antianxiety drug mean?

antianxiety drug means "a tranquilizer used to relieve anxiety and reduce tension and irritability".

What is another word for antianxiety drug?

Close synonyms include minor tranquilizer, minor tranquillizer, minor tranquilliser, anxiolytic, anxiolytic drug. 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 drug a common word?

antianxiety drug 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.