minor tranquilizer

Questions about minor tranquilizer

What does minor tranquilizer mean?

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

What is another word for minor tranquilizer?

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

minor tranquilizer 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.