Meaning

1 senses
  1. An agent that prevents or counteracts depression.

    Antidepressivum

    антидепресса́нтantidepressánt

    антидепреса́нтantydepresánt

More definitions
  • any of a class of drugs used to treat depression; often have undesirable side effects

Examples

20 sentences
  1. Tom is on antidepressants.

    Том на антидепресантах.

    ruТом на антидепрессантах.

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  2. Tom is taking antidepressants.

    Том приймає антидепресанти.

    ruТом принимает антидепрессанты.

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  3. Mennad's antidepressant made him extremely manic.

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  4. Mennad is still on that antidepressant.

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  5. How should you come off antidepressants?

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Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
agent that prevents or counteracts depression:
Русский
By meaning 1
agent that prevents or counteracts depression:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
agent that prevents or counteracts depression:

Origin

From anti- + depressant.

From anti- + depressant.

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Forms

plural: antidepressants
Singularantidepressant
Pluralantidepressants

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • any of a class of drugs used to treat depression; often have undesirable side effects:antidepressant drug

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

1 related words
Relatedfluoxetine

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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