tricyclic

Other forms of tricyclic

plural

tricyclics·

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 tricyclic

What does tricyclic mean?

tricyclic means "an antidepressant drug that acts by blocking the reuptake of norepinephrine and serotonin and thus making more of those substances available to act on receptors in the brain".

How many syllables are in tricyclic?

tricyclic has 3 syllables: tri-cy-clic. The stress falls on "cy".

What is another word for tricyclic?

Close synonyms include tricyclic antidepressant, tricyclic antidepressant drug. 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 tricyclic a common word?

tricyclic 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.