Meanings
- A trade name for the drug fluoxetine.
What I mean is this: Prozac has rather minimal side effects, the lithium has a few more, but basically the pair keep me functioning as a sane human being, at least most of the time.
1994, Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America, Houghton Mifflin, →ISBN, page 16
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna selective-serotonin reuptake inhibitor commonly prescribed as an antidepressant (trade names Prozac or Sarafem); it is thought to work by increasing the activity of serotonin in the brain
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 百憂解 /百忧解
- 百憂解 /百忧解 (bǎiyōujiě)trade name for fluoxetine
Finnish Prozac
- Prozactrade name for fluoxetine
Polish prozak
- prozaktrade name for fluoxetine
Russian Проза́к
- Проза́к (Prozák)trade name for fluoxetine
Cite this entry
Prozac. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Prozac
“Prozac.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Prozac. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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