ANTIDEPRESSANT

antidepressant, antidepressant drug

(noun) any of a class of drugs used to treat depression; often have undesirable side effects

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

antidepressant (plural antidepressants)

(pharmaceutical drug) An agent that prevents or counteracts depression.

Antonym: depressogenic

Hyponym: Thesaurus:antidepressant

Adjective

antidepressant (comparative more antidepressant, superlative most antidepressant)

(pharmaceutical effect) Preventing or counteracting depression.

Source: Wiktionary



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16 March 2025

SUSPENDED

(adjective) (of undissolved particles in a fluid) supported or kept from sinking or falling by buoyancy and without apparent attachment; “suspended matter such as silt or mud...”; “dust particles suspended in the air”; “droplets in suspension in a gas”


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Coffee Trivia

According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.

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