Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Counteracting sleep; tending to prevent sleep or lethargy. Also anthypnotic.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Med.) Tending to prevent sleep.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective medicine Tending to prevent sleep.
  • noun Any agent that prevents sleep.

Etymologies

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anti- +‎ hypnotic

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Examples

  • He went outside, the dome on a sight-seeing trip and made the mistake of looking at a marspoppy without an antihypnotic color filter.

    Shock Absorber E. G. von Wald

  • a little trouble getting close to you with an antihypnotic.

    The Star Hyacinths James H. Schmitz 1946

  • But you’ll remember,” Dasinger said, “that I had a little trouble getting close to you with an antihypnotic.

    The Complete Federation Of The Hub Schmitz, James H. 2000

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