Definitions for depressants

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depressants de·pres·sant

Spelling: [dih-pres-uh nt]

IPA: /dɪˈprɛs ənt/

Depressants is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 900 anagrams from letters in depressants (adeenprssst).

Definitions for depressants

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 depressants

First recorded in 1875-80; depress + -ant

Examples for depressants

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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