psychoactive drug

Questions about psychoactive drug

What does psychoactive drug mean?

psychoactive drug means "a drug that can produce mood changes and distorted perceptions".

What is another word for psychoactive drug?

Close synonyms include mind-altering drug, consciousness-altering drug, psychoactive substance. 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 psychoactive drug a common word?

psychoactive 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.