PSYCHOACTIVE

psychoactive, psychotropic

(adjective) affecting the mind or mood or other mental processes; “psychoactive drugs”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

psychoactive (comparative more psychoactive, superlative most psychoactive)

(pharmaceutical effect) Affecting the mind or mental processes.

Synonyms

• psychotropic

Noun

psychoactive (plural psychoactives)

(pharmaceutical drug) Any drug that affects the mind or mental processes.

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

9 October 2024

VOLATILE

(noun) a volatile substance; a substance that changes readily from solid or liquid to a vapor; “it was heated to evaporate the volatiles”


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Coffee Trivia

The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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