tranquillizer

1. 1.

   a drug used to reduce stress or tension without reducing mental clarity

   Synonymstranquilizertranquilliserantianxiety agentataractic drugataractic agentataractic

   Broaderpsychotropic agentsedative-hypnotic

   Narrowermajor tranquilizerminor tranquilizer

Other forms of tranquillizer

plural

tranquillizers·

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 tranquillizer

What does tranquillizer mean?

tranquillizer means "a drug used to reduce stress or tension without reducing mental clarity".

How many syllables are in tranquillizer?

tranquillizer has 4 syllables: tranq-uil-li-zer. The stress falls on "uil".

What is another word for tranquillizer?

Close synonyms include tranquilizer, tranquilliser, antianxiety agent, ataractic drug, ataractic agent. 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 tranquillizer a common word?

tranquillizer 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.