nontricyclic

1. 1.

   a class of antidepressant drugs that are not tricyclic drugs and do not act by inhibiting MAO

   Synonymsnontricyclic drugnontricyclic antidepressantnontricyclic antidepressant drug

   Broaderantidepressant

   Narrowertrazodone

Other forms of nontricyclic

plural

nontricyclics·

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 nontricyclic

What does nontricyclic mean?

nontricyclic means "a class of antidepressant drugs that are not tricyclic drugs and do not act by inhibiting MAO".

How many syllables are in nontricyclic?

nontricyclic has 4 syllables: non-tri-cy-clic. The stress falls on "cy".

What is another word for nontricyclic?

Close synonyms include nontricyclic drug, nontricyclic antidepressant, nontricyclic antidepressant 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 nontricyclic a common word?

nontricyclic 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.