psychoactive

Questions about psychoactive

What does psychoactive mean?

psychoactive means "affecting the mind or mood or other mental processes".

How many syllables are in psychoactive?

psychoactive has 4 syllables and divides as psy-cho-ac-tive under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for psychoactive?

Close synonyms include psychotropic. 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.

What is the opposite of psychoactive?

The recorded antonyms are nonpsychoactive.

Is psychoactive a common word?

psychoactive is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.