psychoactive

English

Etymology

From psycho- +‎ active.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌsaɪkoʊˈæktɪv/

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Adjective

psychoactive (comparative more psychoactive, superlative most psychoactive)

1. (pharmacology) Affecting the mind or mental processes.

   LSD and DMT are psychoactive drugs.

   • 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 367:

     Ng blows out more smoke, thinking. "As we learned in Vietnam, high-powered weapons are so sensorily overwhelming that they are similar to pyschoactive drugs.

Synonyms

• psychotropic

Derived terms

• nonpsychoactive
• psychoactively

Related terms

• psychoactivation
• psychoactivity

Translations

pharmacology: affecting the mind or mental processes

Bulgarian: въздействащ на психиката (vǎzdejstvašt na psihikata) Catalan: psicoactiu Chinese: Mandarin: 作用於精神的, 作用于精神的 (zuòyòng yú jīngshén de), 影響心理狀態的, 影响心理状态的 (yǐngxiǎng xīnlǐ zhuàngtài de) Esperanto: psikoaktiva, psikaktiva Finnish: psykoaktiivinen (fi) French: psychoactif (fr), psychotrope (fr) German: psychoaktiv Italian: psicoattivo (it) Kazakh: психикалық белсенді (psixikalyq belsendı) Polish: psychoaktywny (pl) m Russian: психоактивный (ru) (psixoaktivnyj) Spanish: psicoactivo (es) Swedish: psykoaktiv Ukrainian: психоакти́вний (psyxoaktývnyj)

Noun

psychoactive (plural psychoactives)

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

   LSD and DMT are psychoactives.

French

Adjective

psychoactive

1. feminine singular of psychoactif