Standard Lemma guide

antidepressant

adj · noun · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -ɛsənt
  • CMU ARPABET: AE2 N T IY0 D IH0 P R EH1 S AH0 N T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

adj

Meaning 1

Preventing or counteracting depression.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: medicine, pharmacology, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

An agent that prevents or counteracts depression.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: medicine, pharmacology, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: depressogenic

3

noun

Meaning 3

any of a class of drugs used to treat depression; often have undesirable side effects

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: antidepressant drug

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: medicine, medication, medicament, medicinal drug

Narrower terms: monoamine oxidase inhibitor, MAOI, nefazodone, Serzone, nontricyclic, nontricyclic drug, nontricyclic antidepressant, nontricyclic antidepressant drug, reboxetine, Edronax, selective-serotonin reuptake inhibitor, SSRI, tricyclic, tricyclic antidepressant, tricyclic antidepressant drug, maleate

History

Etymology

From anti- + depressant.

Across languages

Translations

52 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Catalan: antidepressiu — preventing or counteracting depression
  • Chinese Mandarin: 抗抑鬱的 /抗抑郁的 (kàngyìyù de) — preventing or counteracting depression
  • Finnish: antidepressiivinen — preventing or counteracting depression
  • French: antidépresseur — preventing or counteracting depression
  • Galician: antidepresivo — preventing or counteracting depression
  • Greek: αντικαταθλιπτικός (antikatathliptikós) — preventing or counteracting depression
  • Hungarian: antidepresszáns — preventing or counteracting depression
  • Irish: frithdhúlagair — preventing or counteracting depression
  • Japanese: 抗うつ (kōutsu) — preventing or counteracting depression
  • Polish: antydepresyjny — preventing or counteracting depression
  • Polish: przeciwdepresyjny — preventing or counteracting depression
  • Portuguese: antidepressivo — preventing or counteracting depression
  • Spanish: antidepresivo — preventing or counteracting depression
  • Swedish: antidepressiv — preventing or counteracting depression
  • Welsh: gwrthiselder — preventing or counteracting depression
  • Afrikaans: antidepressant — agent that prevents or counteracts depression
  • Arabic: مُضَادَّة اِكْتِئَاب — agent that prevents or counteracts depression
  • Basque: antidepresibo — agent that prevents or counteracts depression
  • Bulgarian: антидепреса́нт (antidepresánt) — agent that prevents or counteracts depression
  • Catalan: antidepressiu — agent that prevents or counteracts depression
  • Chinese Mandarin: 抗抑鬱藥 /抗抑郁药 (kàngyìyùyào) — agent that prevents or counteracts depression
  • Czech: antidepresivum — agent that prevents or counteracts depression
  • Danish: antidepressiv — agent that prevents or counteracts depression
  • Dutch: antidepressivum — agent that prevents or counteracts depression
  • Esperanto: antideprimigaĵo — agent that prevents or counteracts depression
  • Esperanto: antidepresiaĵo — agent that prevents or counteracts depression
  • Finnish: masennuslääke — agent that prevents or counteracts depression
  • French: antidépresseur — agent that prevents or counteracts depression
  • Galician: antidepresivo — agent that prevents or counteracts depression
  • German: Antidepressivum — agent that prevents or counteracts depression
  • Greek: αντικαταθλιπτικό (antikatathliptikó) — agent that prevents or counteracts depression
  • Hungarian: antidepresszáns — agent that prevents or counteracts depression
  • Icelandic: þunglyndislyf — agent that prevents or counteracts depression
  • Indonesian: antidepresan — agent that prevents or counteracts depression
  • Irish: frithdhúlagrán — agent that prevents or counteracts depression
  • Italian: antidepressivo — agent that prevents or counteracts depression
  • Japanese: 抗うつ薬 (kōutsuyaku) — agent that prevents or counteracts depression
  • Japanese: 抗うつ剤 (kōutsuzai) — agent that prevents or counteracts depression
  • Korean: 항우울제 (hang'uulje) — agent that prevents or counteracts depression
  • Latin: antidepressivum — agent that prevents or counteracts depression
  • Malay: antidepresan — agent that prevents or counteracts depression
  • Malay: antimurung — agent that prevents or counteracts depression
  • Polish: antydepresant — agent that prevents or counteracts depression
  • Portuguese: antidepressivo — agent that prevents or counteracts depression
  • Russian: антидепресса́нт (antidepressánt) — agent that prevents or counteracts depression
  • Slovak: antidepresívum — agent that prevents or counteracts depression
  • Spanish: antidepresivo — agent that prevents or counteracts depression
  • Swedish: antidepressiva — agent that prevents or counteracts depression
  • Swedish: antidepressivt medel — agent that prevents or counteracts depression
  • Swedish: antidepressivt läkemedel — agent that prevents or counteracts depression
  • Ukrainian: антидепреса́нт (antydepresánt) — agent that prevents or counteracts depression
  • Welsh: gwrthiselydd — agent that prevents or counteracts depression
Real reading context

antidepressant in complete knowledge articles