hydroxyzine

1. 1.

   a drug (trade names Atarax and Vistaril) used as a tranquilizer to treat anxiety and motion sickness

   Synonymshydroxyzine hydrochlorideAtaraxVistaril

   Broaderminor tranquilizer

   trade name

Other forms of hydroxyzine

plural

hydroxyzines·

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 hydroxyzine

What does hydroxyzine mean?

hydroxyzine means "a drug (trade names Atarax and Vistaril) used as a tranquilizer to treat anxiety and motion sickness".

How many syllables are in hydroxyzine?

hydroxyzine has 4 syllables: hy-drox-y-zine. The stress falls on "drox".

What is another word for hydroxyzine?

Close synonyms include hydroxyzine hydrochloride, Atarax, Vistaril. 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 hydroxyzine a common word?

hydroxyzine 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.