antidepressant
antidepressant noun: an agent that prevents or counteracts depression.
Noun
antidepressant (plural antidepressants)
- An agent that prevents or counteracts depression.
- Some women with postpartum depression and thyroid imbalance may require antidepressants and psychiatric therapy.1999, Ridha Arem, The Thyroid Solution, →ISBN, page 216
- She had a history of depression and was taking phenelzine, an antidepressant.2009 March 3, Barron H. Lerner, “A Life-Changing Case for Doctors in Training”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 31 Mar 2020
- Antonyms:
- depressogenic
Adjective
antidepressant (comparative more antidepressant, superlative most antidepressant)
- Preventing or counteracting depression.
antidepressant meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Kannada and Arabic
antidepressant in Tamil
- ஏக்கப்பகை
antidepressant in Urdu
- مانِع افسُردَگی
antidepressant in Kannada
- ಖಿನ್ನತೆ ಶಮನಕಾರಿ, ಆಂಟಿ ಡಿಪ್ರೆಸೆಂಟ್
antidepressant in Arabic
- agent that prevents or counteracts depression
- مُضَادَّة اِكْتِئَاب
More languagesFewer languages
- antidepressant in Malay
- antidepresan, antimurung
- antidepressant in Indonesian
- antidepresan
Examples of antidepressant in a sentence
- You've been on these antidepressants far too long.
- These antidepressants potentiate the analgesic action of opiates.
- ARB usage did not influence success rates, whereas betablockers, antidepressants, and central antihypertensives did (Table 23 ).
Antonyms of antidepressant
Forms of antidepressant
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | antidepressants |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more antidepressant |
| superlative | most antidepressant |
Origin of antidepressant
From anti- + depressant.
Words that rhyme with antidepressant
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- convalescent
- depressant
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- cessant
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- chemiluminescent
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- cinerescent
- coalescent
- concrescent
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- crystalloluminescent
- cytofluorescent
- decadescent
- decalescent
- defervescent
- delitescent
- detumescent
Questions about antidepressant
- What does antidepressant mean?
- Antidepressant means an agent that prevents or counteracts depression.
- What is antidepressant in Tamil?
- Antidepressant in Tamil is ஏக்கப்பகை. See Antidepressant meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is antidepressant?
- Antidepressant can be a noun or an adjective.
- What is the plural of antidepressant?
- The plural of antidepressant is antidepressants.
Words near antidepressant in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: antidepressant (page history and authors); antidepressant (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); antidepressant (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); antidepressant (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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