thorazine

1. 1.

   a drug (trade name Thorazine) derived from phenothiazine that has antipsychotic effects and is used as a sedative and tranquilizer

   Synonymschlorpromazine

   Broadermajor tranquilizerphenothiazine

   trade name

Other forms of thorazine

plural

thorazines·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about thorazine

What does thorazine mean?

thorazine means "a drug (trade name Thorazine) derived from phenothiazine that has antipsychotic effects and is used as a sedative and tranquilizer".

How many syllables are in thorazine?

thorazine has 3 syllables: tho-ra-zine. The stress falls on "tho".

What is another word for thorazine?

Close synonyms include chlorpromazine. 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 thorazine a common word?

thorazine 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.