antidepressant

See also: anti-depressant

English

Etymology

From anti- +‎ depressant.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛsənt

Noun

antidepressant (plural antidepressants)

1. (pharmacology) An agent that prevents or counteracts depression.

   Antonym: depressogenic

   Hyponyms: see Thesaurus:antidepressant

   • 1999, Ridha Arem, The Thyroid Solution, →ISBN, page 216:

     Some women with postpartum depression and thyroid imbalance may require antidepressants and psychiatric therapy.

   • 2009 March 3, Barron H. Lerner, “A Life-Changing Case for Doctors in Training”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     She had a history of depression and was taking phenelzine, an antidepressant.

   • 2021, Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness, Canongate Books (2022), page 102:

     Dr. Melanie met with Annabelle and delivered her diagnosis: Benny was in the prodromal phase of schizoaffective disorder, and she was recommending that they stop the Ritalin and start him on an antidepressant for the mood disorder and an antipsychotic to treat the auditory hallucinations.

Translations

agent that prevents or counteracts depression

• Afrikaans: antidepressant
• Arabic: مُضَادَّة اِكْتِئَاب f (muḍādda(t) iktiʔāb)
• Basque: antidepresibo
• Bulgarian: антидепреса́нт m (antidepresánt)
• Catalan: antidepressiu m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 抗抑鬱藥／抗抑郁药 (kàngyìyùyào)

• Czech: antidepresivum (cs) n
• Danish: antidepressiv ?
• Dutch: antidepressivum (nl) ?
• Esperanto: antideprimigaĵo, antidepresiaĵo
• Finnish: masennuslääke (fi)
• French: antidépresseur (fr) m
• Galician: antidepresivo m
• German: Antidepressivum (de) n
• Greek: αντικαταθλιπτικό (el) n (antikatathliptikó)
• Hungarian: antidepresszáns (hu)
• Icelandic: þunglyndislyf n
• Indonesian: antidepresan (id)
• Irish: frithdhúlagrán m
• Italian: antidepressivo (it) m
• Japanese: 抗うつ薬 (kōutsuyaku), 抗うつ剤 (kōutsuzai)
• Latin: antidepressivum n
• Malay: antidepresan, antimurung
• Polish: antydepresant (pl) m
• Portuguese: antidepressivo (pt) m
• Russian: антидепресса́нт (ru) m (antidepressánt)
• Slovak: antidepresívum n
• Spanish: antidepresivo (es) m
• Swedish: antidepressiva (sv) c pl, antidepressivt medel ?, antidepressivt läkemedel ?
• Ukrainian: антидепреса́нт m (antydepresánt)
• Welsh: gwrthiselydd m

See also

• fluoxetine
• Prozac

Adjective

antidepressant (comparative more antidepressant, superlative most antidepressant)

1. (pharmacology) Preventing or counteracting depression.

Translations

preventing or counteracting depression

• Catalan: antidepressiu
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 抗抑鬱的／抗抑郁的 (kàngyìyù de)

• Finnish: antidepressiivinen
• French: antidépresseur (fr)
• Galician: antidepresivo
• Greek: αντικαταθλιπτικός (el) m (antikatathliptikós)
• Hungarian: antidepresszáns (hu)
• Irish: frithdhúlagair
• Japanese: 抗うつ (kōutsu)
• Polish: antydepresyjny (pl), przeciwdepresyjny (pl)
• Portuguese: antidepressivo (pt)
• Spanish: antidepresivo (es)
• Swedish: antidepressiv (sv)
• Welsh: gwrthiselder