Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having an altering effect on perception, emotion, or behavior. Used especially of a drug.
- n. A psychotropic drug or other agent.
Wiktionary
- adj. pharmacology Affecting the mind or mental processes.
- n. pharmacology A psychotropic drug or agent.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. affecting the mind or mood or other mental processes
Examples
“A: Yes and No, the potentially damaging effects of long-term psychotropic use outweighs its ineffectiveness.”
“Gottstein conducted an investigation and determined that the vast majority of off-label psychotropic drug prescriptions for children and youth that are paid for by Medicaid constitute Medicaid fraud.”
“Such meds, meds that affect the mind are called psychotropic medications.”
“In its decision, the Court addressed the class of drugs known as psychotropic medications.”
“Entheogens (whose name means in Greek "deification from within") are substances scientifically classified as psychotropic herbs.”
“Among adults over 65, use of so-called psychotropic drugs -- which include antidepressants and antipsychotics -- doubled between 1996 and 2006.”
“At the same time many alternative products are being offered, such as psychotropic medicines and electronic entertainment that have fewer strings attached.”
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“The number of seniors getting "psychotropic" medications, including antipsychotic and dementia drugs, doubled between 1996 and 2006, a new study found.”
“In "Jack and Alice," Austen draws attention to the virtual inevitability of women's need to steal male attention and to "steal" — through some kind of psychotropic delight — moments of freedom from entrapping eighteenth-century codes.”
'Pleasure is now, and ought to be, your business': Stealing Sexuality in Jane Austen's _Juvenilia_
“In the last five years I have worked with two children who were not on some kind of psychotropic drug or another.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘psychotropic’.
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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tropic topics
tropical topicals
subtropic, phototropic, hypermetropic, geotropic, eolotropic, pleiotropic, inotropic, adrenocorticotropic, coptic tropic, apogeotropic, allotropic, orthotropic and 76 more...
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psycho-
also psych- , psi- ; relating to the mind or psychology
psychometrics, psychobabble, psychiatrist, psychologist, psychotropic, psionic, psychotherapy, psychotherapist, psycho, psychotic, psychoanalysis, psychosomatic and 2 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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Reckon's Word List
Turned On
tintinnabulation, talisman, soliloquy, serendipity, quintessential, rhapsody, plethora, myrrh, palimpsest, panoply, mellifluous, loquacious and 102 more...
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cloudjuice's Words
schadenfreude, sordid, promulgate, erratic, erroneous, amalgamate, sesquipedalian, incongruous, psychosis, etymology, simulacrum, serendipity and 988 more...
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Noesis
Mind or Mind Altering
example: psychotomimetic
( _mark, personal list, randomness )
related:
noetic, entheogen, psychonautics, infinite, bewilderment, mystification, stupefication, enhanced, altered, perception, simulation, network and 212 more... -
vocab
numinous, gloze, diffident, soporific, lissome, rebarbative, trope, deliquesce, abjure, obdurate, pugilistic, puerile and 265 more...
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nfrank's Words
antediluvian, equivocate, inchoate, denouement, effulgent, edify, endemic, palimpsest, apropos, circumnavigate, circumlocution, cognoscente and 484 more...
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-tropic, trop-
turning toward; affecting; maintaining or regulating
heliotropic, psychotropic, tropism, phototropic, tropophilous
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word set9
spongiform, stochastic, bibliobibuli, gangliest, macadamization, orchidaceous, fructiferous, phatically, persiflage, caliginous, helical, tracery and 72 more...
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Health Slayer Industry
Well, it's not all bad. But too much is.
analgesia, analgesic, resveratrol, tachycardia, tachycardic, polyphenols, allele, allelic, tzaraath, reuptake, serotonin, nostrum and 86 more...
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OrbitalCombustion's Words
nepenthe, phrontistery, peregrination, pervicacious, sinistrality, phallogocentric, prolixity, leptokurtic, ineffable, haecceity, lucubration, vicissitudes and 1026 more...
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lorilori's Words
abattoir, eviscerate, liberate, asshat, functional, vitriol, misanthropic, tofu, hegemony, word, unacceptable, tatterdemalion and 19 more...
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inhibitor's Words
formication, annunciate, aperitif, amalgamation, pyrophoric, gumption, indubitably, glace, psychotropic, schadenfreude, proliferation, multitudinous and 20 more...
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themacmaven's Words
ouah-ouah, shiny, squee, wibble, wah, jeezum crow, persnickety, blog, onomatopoeia, tout s'arrangera, gaucher, oscillate and 25 more...
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