ADJECTIVE
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tending to soothe or tranquilize
took a hot drink with sedative properties before going to bed
valium has a tranquilizing effect
How To Use ataraxic In A Sentence
- There was no good animal test to screen for the ataraxic effects, because the antihistamines made laboratory animals hyperexcitable, not calm.
- In so far as the ataraxic effect is concerned, both groups of substances raise the same psychopharmacological problem, which is the possibility of reducing emotion by means of medicaments.
- To the fast-swelling ranks of ataraxic drugs, another was added last week for patients with relatively mild emotional disorders.
- Perhaps he has attained the sort of blissful ataraxic state that his characters so long for.
- n. - tranquillity of mind; imperturbability. ataractic, ataraxic, Xml's Blinklist.com
- A hazy, formless curtain of pink at the far end of the corridor proved to be a pure free-serotonin antagonist in high concentration, a true ataraxic which washed his mind free of every emotion but contentment with everything in all the wide universe. A Case Of Conscience
- Don't you know how ataraxic she is at this time of the morning?
