anxiolytic

1. 1.

   anxiety relieving

Other forms of anxiolytic

plural

anxiolytics·

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 anxiolytic

What does anxiolytic mean?

anxiolytic means "a tranquilizer used to relieve anxiety and reduce tension and irritability". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in anxiolytic?

anxiolytic has 5 syllables: an-xi-o-ly-tic. The stress falls on "ly".

What is another word for anxiolytic?

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

anxiolytic 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.