chlorpromazine

Questions about chlorpromazine

What does chlorpromazine mean?

chlorpromazine means "a drug (trade name Thorazine) derived from phenothiazine that has antipsychotic effects and is used as a sedative and tranquilizer".

How many syllables are in chlorpromazine?

chlorpromazine has 4 syllables and divides as chlor-pro-ma-zine under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for chlorpromazine?

Close synonyms include Thorazine. 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 chlorpromazine a common word?

chlorpromazine 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.