Sedatives - English meaning

adjective

(chiefly of a drug) reducing functional or nervous activity.

Usage examples:

It is also necessary to exclude reversible causes of failure of brain function, including depressan…

noun

A depressant drug.

Usage examples:

Phenothiazines, tricyclic antidepressants, and cns depressants may potentiate the therapeutic and a…

noun

A substance that causes you to feel sad or calm

noun

A depressant or tranquillizing drug, especially a barbiturate.

Usage examples:

During that week i was heavily doped on downers

noun

An event or experience that makes you unhappy and lacking in hope, confidence, or energy

Usage examples:

Your car’s been stolen? that’s a real downer!

noun

An event or experience that makes you unhappy

Usage examples:

You lost your job? that's a real downer!

noun

A drug or other substance that affects mood or behaviour and is consumed for non-medical purposes, especially one sold illegally.

Usage examples:

Cultivation of a plant used to make a popular local narcotic

adjective

Relating to or denoting narcotics or illegal drugs.

Usage examples:

Consumption of narcotic substances

noun

A type of drug that causes sleep and that is used medically to reduce the strength of pain, and that in some forms is also used illegally

Usage examples:

Narcotic painkillers

adjective

(of a drug) tending to reduce nervous tension by depressing nerve functions.

Usage examples:

A number of the older tricyclic antidepressants, typical neuroleptic medications and, more recently…

noun

A neuroleptic drug; a major tranquillizer.

Usage examples:

The drugs used for schizophrenia are antipsychotics or neuroleptics (major tranquillizers).

adjective

Relating to, resembling, or containing opium.

Usage examples:

The use of opiate drugs

noun

A drug derived from or related to opium.

Usage examples:

The opiates are known to have natural counterparts called endorphins

verb

Dull the senses of (someone) with or as if with opium.

Usage examples:

He grew old and soft, opiating himself into a dreaming bliss

noun

A person or animal who is asleep or who sleeps in a specified way.

Usage examples:

He was a light sleeper, for long periods an insomniac

adjective

Tending to induce drowsiness or sleep.

Usage examples:

The motion of the train had a somewhat soporific effect

noun

A drug or other substance that induces drowsiness or sleep.

Usage examples:

The meal was light - perhaps eggs and a posset (hot milk fortified with sugar, spices, eggs, and wi…

adjective

Causing sleep or making a person want to sleep

Usage examples:

The soporific effect of the heat

noun

Another term for tranquillizer.

Usage examples:

It's bad news mixing tranks and booze

noun

A medicinal drug taken to reduce tension or anxiety.

Usage examples:

Medications prescribed most frequently for this population are psychoactive drugs such as sleeping …

noun

A drug used to make a person or animal calmer

Usage examples:

She was on tranquillizers for a long time after her son died.