Lounging by the sea, content in the embrace of the tropical sun, is one of our favorite ways to achieve the definition of today's word.

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DEFINITION:

Adjective
Undisturbed
Calm

Noun(Medical)
Having a calming or tranqualizing quality

ETYMOLOGY/ORIGIN:
Greek
From "ataraktos" meaning calm, undisturbed

PRONUNCIATION:
[ăt′ə-răk′tĭk]
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SYNONYM:
Calming or Calmative
Sedating or Sedative

ANTONYM:
Chaos
Upset or Upsetting
Disturb or Disturbing

SCRABBLE SCORE:
13

USAGE/EXAMPLES:

For Marinetti, the man of the future was not so much the product of Darwinian evolution as, rather, the transformist hypothesis of Lamarck (whom, indeed he cited in his essay): not an evolution of man but his alchemical transformation into a more perfect being created by the futurists, a "non-human type in whom moral pain, kindness, affection and love, i.e., the only corrosive poisons of inexhaustible vital energy, will be abolished" -- in short, a man aiming for a suspended, ATARACTIC, beyond-good-and-evil spiritual state.

--Luigi Russolo, Futurist: Noise, Visual Arts, and the Occult
by Luciano Chessa, 2012

Yet the true ATARACTIC agent is supposed to induce a tranquillization without sedation or loss of alertness.

--Screening Methods in Parmacology
by Robert A. Turner, 2013

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Certain incense, such as Nag Champa, tends to be very calming to us, as is music with a nice glass of wine in the evening. What has an ATARACTIC effect on you?

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