sedative-hypnotic drug

Questions about sedative-hypnotic drug

What does sedative-hypnotic drug mean?

sedative-hypnotic drug means "a sedative that depresses activity of the central nervous system and reduces anxiety and induces sleep".

What is another word for sedative-hypnotic drug?

Close synonyms include sedative-hypnotic. 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-hypnotic drug a common word?

sedative-hypnotic 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.