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depressant

[ dih-pres-uhnt ]

adjective

  1. Medicine/Medical. having the quality of depressing depressing or lowering the vital activities; sedative.
  2. causing a lowering in spirits; dejecting.
  3. causing a drop in value; economically depressing. depressing.


noun

  1. Medicine/Medical. a sedative. Compare stimulant ( def 1 ).
  2. Chemistry. any agent capable of diminishing a specific property of a substance.

depressant

/ dɪˈprɛsənt /

adjective

  1. med able to diminish or reduce nervous or functional activity
  2. causing gloom or dejection; depressing
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


noun

  1. a depressant drug
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of depressant1

First recorded in 1875–80; depress + -ant
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Example Sentences

Similar to previous non-hallucinogenic cousins, their molecules need a high dose to see anti-depressant effects.

There are certain points during a woman’s menstrual cycle where anti-depressants may be too low at their normal dose, and that at another point, they might be too high.

Street-drug users often combine fentanyl with methamphetamine, Zibbell said, believing that the stimulant and the depressant balance each other.

A commercial for an anti-depressant to take when you feel “everything is meaningless” and works to “anchor you back to reality” corresponds to an episode where Wanda begins to realize the limit of her delusion.

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Another side is when you’re on anti-depressants, the hookup physiology may not work.

In fact, the estrogen that they employed did worse than castrate the subject—it could act as a cerebral depressant.

Some presenters claim that qat is like heroin, a depressant.

Kotak has only just begun weaning herself off a cocktail of anti-psychotic, anti-depressant, and anti-anxiety medication.

This is something that's the best anti-depressant, anti-anxiety drug I have ever been on.

The disease is very severe, painful, and depressant, but the mortality is quite low except in complication with other maladies.

In large doses chloral hydrate is a depressant to the circulation and the respiration, and also lowers the temperature.

But the weakening and deteriorating effect of this pernicious narcotic, water-absorbing, depressant drug poison is unmistakable.

But, unfortunately, acetanilid is also the one with the most depressant action on the heart.

As a stimulant Capsicum has the power of neutralizing depressant remedies like Lobelia and Tobacco.

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