nontricyclic drug

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

   Synonymsnontricyclicnontricyclic antidepressantnontricyclic antidepressant drug

   Broaderantidepressant

   Narrowertrazodone

Questions about nontricyclic drug

What does nontricyclic drug mean?

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

What is another word for nontricyclic drug?

Close synonyms include nontricyclic, 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 drug a common word?

nontricyclic 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.