narcotic

Speech parts

1. narcotic - Noun

2. narcotic - Adjective

3. narcotic - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Having the properties of a narcotic; operating as a narcotic.

A drug which, in medicinal doses, generally allays morbid susceptibility, relieves pain, and produces sleep; but which, in poisonous doses, produces stupor, coma, or convulsions, and, when given in sufficient quantity, causes death. The best examples are opium (with morphine), belladonna (with atropine), and conium.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

soporific soporiferous narcotizing downer pharmaceutics poppy antimalarial blue angel Dilaudid medical drug cocaine morphine cannabis anesthetic
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Antonyms

energizer reveille trying healthy painful exciting
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Hypernyms

drug

Hyponyms

opiate fixer methadone opium hard drug soft drug

Phrases with the word

mild narcotic narcotic fentanyl narcotic use synthetic narcotic illicit traffic in narcotic drugs trafficking in narcotic drugs

Anagrams

caticorn cratonic

Examples

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference. Charlie Chaplin

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism. Carl Jung

Moral obligation is to me so very strong a Stimulant, that in 9 cases out of ten it acts as a Narcotic. The Blow that should rouse, stuns me. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

There's no narcotic like exhaustion. Octavia Butler

Books are a narcotic. Franz Kafka

Hans Castorp loved music from his heart; it worked upon him much the same way as did his breakfast porter, with deeply soothing, narcotic effect, tempting him to doze. Thomas Mann

Close letter words and terms

narcoterrorist narcotherapeutic narcotherapy narcotic antagonist narcotic antagonist drug naloxone narcotic blocker naloxone