Sedative
Antonyms of SEDATIVE
- invigorating, bothersome, exasperating, trying, tiresome, stimulating, painful, nettlesome, worrisome, upsetting, excitative, vexatious, frustrating, agitating, stimulant, vexing, energizing, galling, irritating, stimulative, annoying, maddening, disturbing, antidepressant, grating, aggravating, stressful.
Examples of usage:
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" Look in at him from time to time through the night, and give him another dose of the sedative mixture if he wakes. "Man and Wife" by Wilkie Collins
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The one is a sedative, the other an acute stimulant to the nervous system. "Records of a Girlhood" by Frances Ann Kemble
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Yet he had to take a sedative to get to sleep. "Mate in Two Moves" by Winston Marks