ataractic
That has a tranquilizing effect.
Adjective
- That has a tranquilizing effect.
- Some drugs produce vivid hallucinations, others induce a relaxed condition, or are ataractic in their effect, that is, promote temporary tranquility[.] - 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The...
- Later on he was treated by the same psychiatrist with ataractic drugs. - 2013, Einar Kringlen, Heredity and Environment in the Functional Psychoses, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 180:
Origin
From Ancient Greek ἀτάρακτος (atáraktos, “intrepid”), from ταράσσω (tarássō).
Forms
Noun
- A drug that is used to tranquilize; a tranquilizer.