antidepressant drug

1. 1.

   any of a class of drugs used to treat depression; often have undesirable side effects

   Synonymsantidepressant

   Broadermedicine

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Questions about antidepressant drug

What does antidepressant drug mean?

antidepressant drug means "any of a class of drugs used to treat depression; often have undesirable side effects".

What is another word for antidepressant drug?

Close synonyms include antidepressant. 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 antidepressant drug a common word?

antidepressant 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.