Sedatives - English meaning

Sedatives – definitions in English dictionary

noun
A drug taken for its calming or sleep-inducing effect.
Usage examples:
She won't let them give her sedatives because of the baby
Synonims:
Tranquillizer Calmative Depressant Sleeping pill Soporific Narcotic Opiate Neuroleptic Trank Sleeper Downer

adjective
Promoting calm or inducing sleep.
Usage examples:
The seeds have a sedative effect

noun
A drug that has a calming effect
Usage examples:
If your pet is unaccustomed to car travel, consider a mild sedative to help relieve its anxiety.

Sedatives translation into English

Sedatives: translate from English into Chinese

镇静剂, 镇痛, 去热除烦药

Sedatives: translate from English into Dutch

Kalmerende middelen, Kalmerend middel, Kalmeringsmiddel, Verdovend middel

Sedatives: translate from English into French

Sédatifs, Sédatif

Sedatives: translate from English into German

Beruhigungsmittel, Sedativum, Sedativ

Sedatives: translate from English into Hindi

शामक, सीडेटिव, शांति देनेवाली औषधि, दर्द हटानेवाली औषधि, शामक औषध

Sedatives: translate from English into Italian

Sedativi, Sedativo, Calmante

Sedatives: translate from English into Korean

진정제

Sedatives: translate from English into Russian

Успокоительные, Успокаивающее средство

Sedatives: translate from English into Spanish

Sedantes, Sedante, Calmante

Word origin

late Middle English: from Old French sedatif or medieval Latin sedativus, from Latin sedat- ‘settled’, from the verb sedare (see sedate1).

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Sedatives synonims

calmative

adjective
(of a drug) having a sedative effect.
Usage examples:
It has developed a range of weapons capable of delivering calmative chemicals, including specialize…

noun
A calmative drug.
Usage examples:
This is just what is depicted in the various scenarios envisioned by military planners laying out a…

Calmative - all meanings in English

depressant

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

Depressant - all meanings in English

downer

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!

Downer - all meanings in English

narcotic

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

Narcotic - all meanings in English

neuroleptic

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).

Neuroleptic - all meanings in English

opiate

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

Opiate - all meanings in English

sleeper

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

Sleeper - all meanings in English

soporific

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

Soporific - all meanings in English

trank

noun
Another term for tranquillizer.
Usage examples:
It's bad news mixing tranks and booze

Trank - all meanings in English

tranquillizer

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.

Tranquillizer - all meanings in English

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