Definitions for depressant

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depressant de·pres·sant

Spelling: [dih-pres-uh nt]

IPA: /dɪˈprɛs ənt/

Depressant is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 875 anagrams from letters in depressant (adeenprsst).

Definitions for depressant

noun

1. Medicine/Medical. a sedative. Compare stimulant (def 1).
2. Chemistry. any agent capable of diminishing a specific property of a substance.

adjective

1. Medicine/Medical. having the quality of depressing or lowering the vital activities; sedative.
2. causing a lowering in spirits; dejecting.
3. causing a drop in value; economically depressing.

Origin of depressant

First recorded in 1875-80; depress + -ant

Examples for depressant

Discontent with their former condition acted upon them not as a depressant but as a tonic.

He is stimulant, irritant, but there is no depressant reaction from him.

depressant as black life- preservers its two extra tires gleamed and dripped in their jetty enamel-cloth casings.

Some presenters claim that qat is like heroin, a depressant.

It is not a stimulant in the proper acceptation of the term; on the contrary it is a depressant.

The disease is very severe, painful, and depressant, but the mortality is quite low except in complication with other maladies.

Tobacco, and especially cigarettes, being a depressant upon the heart, should be positively forbidden.

But on account of this depressant action it is to be avoided for women and children and rarely used for men.

Ten years ago many good authorities still ranked alcohol as a stimulant; now, almost all rank it as a depressant.

It is a stimulant, not a depressant, as is the tepid bath, and it is safer than the cold bath.