Antipsychotics are medicines that are mainly used to treat schizophrenia or mania caused by bipolar disorder. There are two main types of antipsychotics: atypical antipsychotics and older antipsychotics. Both types are thought to work as well as each other.hey can also be used to treat severe depression and severe anxiety. Antipsychotics are sometimes also called major tranquillisers. There are two main types of antipsychotics: 1  Newer or atypical antipsychotics.
Learner's definition of PUGNACIOUS. [more pugnacious; most pugnacious] formal. : showing a readiness or desire to fight or argue. There's one pugnacious member on the committee who won't agree to anything. [+] more examples [-] hide examples [+] Example sentences [-] Hide examples.
Pronunciation[edit] Adjective[edit] 1  Naturally aggressive or hostile; combative; belligerent; bellicose. 2  1858, Anthony Trollope, Dr Thorne, ch.  Not that the doctor was a bully, or even pugnacious, in the usual sense of the word; he had no disposition to provoke a fight, no propense love of quarrelling. 1  1904, Jack London, The Sea Wolf, ch.  As he made the demand he spat out a mouthful of blood and teeth and shoved his pugnacious face close to Oofty-Oofty.