anxiolytic drug

Questions about anxiolytic drug

What does anxiolytic drug mean?

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

What is another word for anxiolytic drug?

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

anxiolytic 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.