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psychostimulant

psychostimulant adjective: tending to increase mental alertness and awareness.

Adjective

psychostimulant (comparative more psychostimulant, superlative most psychostimulant)

  1. Tending to increase mental alertness and awareness
    • a psychostimulant effect

Noun

psychostimulant (plural psychostimulants)

  1. A drug that acts to temporarily increase mental alertness or awareness
    Synonyms:
    stimulant

Synonyms of psychostimulant

Forms of psychostimulant

Adjective
comparativemore psychostimulant
superlativemost psychostimulant
Noun
pluralpsychostimulants

Origin of psychostimulant

From psycho- + stimulant.

Questions about psychostimulant

What does psychostimulant mean?
Psychostimulant means tending to increase mental alertness and awareness.
What part of speech is psychostimulant?
Psychostimulant can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near psychostimulant in the dictionary

  1. psychostasy
  2. psychostatic
  3. psychostatical
  4. psychostatically
  5. psychostatics
  6. psychostimulant
  7. psychostimulants
  8. psychostimulating
  9. psychostimulation
  10. psychostimulations
  11. psychostimulative

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