antipsychotic agent

Questions about antipsychotic agent

What does antipsychotic agent mean?

antipsychotic agent means "tranquilizer used to treat psychotic conditions when a calming effect is desired".

What is another word for antipsychotic agent?

Close synonyms include major tranquilizer, major tranquillizer, major tranquilliser, antipsychotic drug, antipsychotic. 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 antipsychotic agent a common word?

antipsychotic 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.