depressant
/dɪˈpɹɛsənt/
depressant noun: a pharmacological substance which decreases neuronal or physiological activity.
Noun
depressant (countable and uncountable, plural depressants)
- A pharmacological substance which decreases neuronal or physiological activity.
- Alcohol acts first as a stimulant and then as a depressant.
- The prescription painkiller Emily Jackson took is a respiratory depressant that slows breathing. That in combination with the alcohol, another respiratory depressant, overwhelmed her brain, which stopped giving her heart and lungs the signal to keep functioning.2012 November 15, Maxwell Newfield, “Prescription drug deaths: Two stories”, in CNN
- An agent that inhibits the flotation of a mineral or minerals.
Adjective
depressant (comparative more depressant, superlative most depressant)
- Reducing functional or nervous activity.
- the conception of the asomatous depressant malaria1876, Alfred Alexander Woodhull, Studies, chiefly clinical […]
depressant meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam and Malay
depressant in Hindi
- substance which decreases physiological activity
- अवनमक avanmak, अवसादक avsādak
depressant in Tamil
- மூளைத்திறன் குறைப்பு மருந்து
depressant in Malayalam
- tranquilizer, sedative, calmative
- ശമനൗഷധം, ശമൗഷധം, ആർത്തിഘ്നം, നിദ്രഷൗധം, മയക്കുമരുന്ന്, മനശ്ശാന്തിനൽകുന്ന ലഹരിമരുന്ന്
depressant in Malay
- substance which decreases physiological activity
- depresen
More languagesFewer languages
- depressant in Indonesian
- penenang, depresan
- depressant in Persian
- سرکوبکننده sarkub-konande
Forms of depressant
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | depressants |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more depressant |
| superlative | most depressant |
Origin of depressant
From depress + -ant.
Words formed from depressant
Words that rhyme with depressant
- crescent
- evanescent
- deliquescent
- fluorescent
- incandescent
- efflorescent
- quiescent
- senescent
- accrescent
- acquiescent
- arborescent
- circumcrescent
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- convalescent
- effervescent
- erubescent
- excrescent
- iridescent
- juvenescent
- lapidescent
- pubescent
- recrudescent
- reflorescent
- spinescent
- tumescent
- virescent
- viridescent
- acaulescent
- adipescent
- adularescent
- adultescent
- adultolescent
- agonescent
- albescent
- alcalescent
- alkalescent
- antidepressant
- autofluorescent
- autoluminescent
- biofluorescent
- bioluminescent
- calescent
- candescent
- cathodoluminescent
- caulescent
- cerulescent
- cessant
- chemifluorescent
- chemiluminescent
- chemoluminescent
- cinerescent
- coalescent
- concrescent
- contabescent
- crystalloluminescent
- cytofluorescent
- decadescent
- decalescent
- defervescent
- delitescent
- detumescent
Questions about depressant
- What does depressant mean?
- Depressant means a pharmacological substance which decreases neuronal or physiological activity.
- What is depressant in Hindi?
- Depressant in Hindi is अवनमक (avanmak), अवसादक (avsādak). See Depressant meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is depressant?
- Depressant can be a noun or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce depressant?
- Depressant is pronounced /dɪˈpɹɛsənt/ (UK).
- What is the plural of depressant?
- The plural of depressant is depressants.
Words near depressant in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: depressant (page history and authors); depressant (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); depressant (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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