depressant

1. 1.

   capable of depressing physiological or psychological activity or response by a chemical agent

   Antonymsstimulative

   Similarataracticnarcoticrelaxantsoporific

Other forms of depressant

plural

depressants·

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 depressant

What does depressant mean?

depressant means "a drug that reduces excitability and calms a person". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in depressant?

depressant has 3 syllables: de-pres-sant. The stress falls on "pres". In IPA it is /dɪˈpɹɛsənt/.

What is another word for depressant?

Close synonyms include sedative, sedative drug, downer. 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.

What is the opposite of depressant?

The recorded antonyms are stimulative.

Is depressant a common word?

depressant 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.

What rhymes with depressant?

2 words rhyme with depressant. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.