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antipsychotic

antipsychotic adjective: preventing or counteracting psychosis.

Adjective

antipsychotic (not comparable)

  1. Preventing or counteracting psychosis.

Noun

antipsychotic (plural antipsychotics)

  1. Any of a group of drugs used to treat psychosis or other conditions, chiefly one that acts as an antagonist, partial agonist, or inverse agonist of dopamine receptors in the synapses.
    Synonyms:
    neuroleptic

antipsychotic meaning in Tamil

antipsychotic in Tamil

மனக்குழப்ப நீக்கி

Synonyms of antipsychotic

Forms of antipsychotic

pluralantipsychotics

Origin of antipsychotic

From anti- + psychotic.

Words formed from antipsychotic

Questions about antipsychotic

What does antipsychotic mean?
Antipsychotic means preventing or counteracting psychosis.
What is antipsychotic in Tamil?
Antipsychotic in Tamil is மனக்குழப்ப நீக்கி. See Antipsychotic meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is antipsychotic?
Antipsychotic can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near antipsychotic in the dictionary

  1. antipsychologists
  2. antipsychology
  3. antipsychosis
  4. antipsychotherapeutic
  5. antipsychotherapy
  6. antipsychotic
  7. antipsychotically
  8. antipsychotics
  9. antiptoses
  10. antiptosis
  11. antipublic

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