sedative drug

1. 1.

   a drug that reduces excitability and calms a person

   Synonymssedativedepressantdowner

   Broadermedicinedrug of abuse

   Narrowerchloral hydrateglutethimidesedative-hypnotic

Questions about sedative drug

What does sedative drug mean?

sedative drug means "a drug that reduces excitability and calms a person".

What is another word for sedative drug?

Close synonyms include sedative, depressant, downer. 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 sedative drug a common word?

sedative 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.