mind-altering drug

Questions about mind-altering drug

What does mind-altering drug mean?

mind-altering drug means "a drug that can produce mood changes and distorted perceptions".

What is another word for mind-altering drug?

Close synonyms include psychoactive drug, consciousness-altering drug, psychoactive substance. 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 mind-altering drug a common word?

mind-altering 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.