minor tranquillizer

Questions about minor tranquillizer

What does minor tranquillizer mean?

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

What is another word for minor tranquillizer?

Close synonyms include minor tranquilizer, 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 tranquillizer a common word?

minor tranquillizer 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.