psychopharmacologist
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.07 in modern English
40
Scrabble Score
20
Letters
6
Syllables
13
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A person involved in psychopharmacology.
Example Sentences
- "The psychopharmacologist (I like to call his office the Fifth Avenue Crack House, because all he really does is write prescriptions and hand out pills) told me I shouldn't."
- "Even medical schools seem to have submitted to psychophobia by training psychiatrists almost exclusively as psychopharmacologists instead of as psychotherapists."
- "But a psychopharmacologist felt his physical symptoms were so extreme that unless he tamped those down, he couldn’t benefit from other coping techniques, according to Stossel."
Etymology
Etymology tree Ancient Greek ψῡχή (psūkhḗ) Ancient Greek ψῡχο- (psūkho-)der. English psycho- Ancient Greek φάρμᾰκον (phármăkon)der. English pharmaco- Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *lóǵos Proto-Hellenic *lógos Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) Ancient Greek -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logĭ́ā)bor. Latin -logialbor. French -logiebor. English -logy English pharmacology English psychopharmacology Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English psychopharmacologist From psychopharmacology + -ist.