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psychotropic

/ˌsaɪkəˈtɹɒpɪk/

psychotropic adjective: affecting the mind or mental processes.

Adjective

psychotropic (comparative more psychotropic, superlative most psychotropic)

  1. Affecting the mind or mental processes.
    • “Medication can be part of a psychotropic arsenal,” he said, discussing one therapist who urged him to stop taking Xanax so he could address his anxiety directly and not mask the physical symptoms.2014 January 28, Kat Kinsman, “10 things we learned about surviving anxiety”, in CNN

Noun

psychotropic (plural psychotropics)

  1. A psychotropic drug or agent.

psychotropic meaning in Tamil

psychotropic in Tamil

உள நிலைமாற்றி, உளமேற்செல்லு

Synonyms of psychotropic

Forms of psychotropic

Adjective
comparativemore psychotropic
superlativemost psychotropic
Noun
pluralpsychotropics

Origin of psychotropic

From psycho- + -tropic.

Words formed from psychotropic

Words that rhyme with psychotropic

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Questions about psychotropic

What does psychotropic mean?
Psychotropic means affecting the mind or mental processes.
What is psychotropic in Tamil?
Psychotropic in Tamil is உள நிலைமாற்றி, உளமேற்செல்லு. See Psychotropic meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is psychotropic?
Psychotropic can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce psychotropic?
Psychotropic is pronounced /ˌsaɪkəˈtɹɒpɪk/.

Words near psychotropic in the dictionary

  1. psychotridine
  2. psychotronic
  3. psychotronically
  4. psychotronics
  5. psychotrophic
  6. psychotropic
  7. psychotropics
  8. psychotropism
  9. psychotropisms
  10. psychotypological
  11. psychotypologically

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Adapted from Wiktionary: psychotropic (page history and authors); psychotropic (Tamil 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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