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NARCOTIC
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A drug that produces numbness or stupor; often taken for pleasure or to reduce pain; extensive use can lead to addiction
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("narcotic" is a kind of...):
drug (a substance that is used as a medicine or narcotic)
Domain member category:
connection (a supplier (especially of narcotics))
space cadet (someone who seems unable to respond appropriately to reality (as if under the influence of some narcotic drug))
addiction; dependance; dependence; dependency; habituation (being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs))
drug addiction; white plague (an addiction to a drug (especially a narcotic drug))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "narcotic"):
hard drug (a narcotic that is considered relatively strong and likely to cause addiction)
Demerol; meperidine; meperidine hydrochloride (a synthetic narcotic drug (trade name Demerol) used to treat pain)
dolophine hydrochloride; fixer; methadon; methadone; methadone hydrochloride; synthetic heroin (synthetic narcotic drug similar to morphine but less habit-forming; used in narcotic detoxification and maintenance of heroin addiction)
opiate (a narcotic drug that contains opium or an opium derivative)
opium (an addictive narcotic extracted from seed capsules of the opium poppy)
recreational drug (a narcotic drug that is used only occasionally and is claimed to be nonaddictive)
soft drug (a drug of abuse that is considered relatively mild and not likely to cause addiction)
Derivation:
narcotic (inducing stupor or narcosis)
narcotize (administer narcotics to)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Inducing mental lethargy
Example:
a narcotic speech
Synonyms:
narcotic; soporiferous; soporific
Classified under:
Similar:
uninteresting (arousing no interest or attention or curiosity or excitement)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Inducing stupor or narcosis
Example:
narcotic drugs
Synonyms:
narcotic; narcotising; narcotizing
Classified under:
Similar:
depressant (capable of depressing physiological or psychological activity or response by a chemical agent)
Derivation:
narcosis (unconsciousness induced by narcotics or anesthesia)
narcotic (a drug that produces numbness or stupor; often taken for pleasure or to reduce pain; extensive use can lead to addiction)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Of or relating to or designating narcotics
Example:
narcotic stupor
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
narcotic (a drug that produces numbness or stupor; often taken for pleasure or to reduce pain; extensive use can lead to addiction)
Context examples:
A body lay within, its head all wreathed in cotton-wool, which had been soaked in the narcotic.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Excitable people like you are the better for narcotics.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A narcotic analgesic that can be used for the relief of most types of moderate to severe pain, including postoperative pain and the pain of labor.
(Meperidine hydrochloride, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
A phthalide isoquinoline non-narcotic alkaloid derived from the opium poppy Papaver somniferum, with mild analgesic, antitussive, and potential antineoplastic activities.
(Noscapine, NCI Thesaurus)
Difenoxin is chemically related to the narcotic opioid meperidine.
(Difenoxin, NCI Thesaurus)
The patients had normal hemoglobin, fewer hospitalizations, and lower use of narcotics to treat pain from the disease.
(Stem cell transplant reverses sickle cell disease in adults, NIH)
A narcotic analgesic that may be habit-forming.
(Diacetylmorphine, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
Narcotics are like opiates such as morphine and codeine, but are not made from opium.
(Narcotic, NCI Dictionary)
A semisynthetic narcotic analgesic related to hydromorphone and other opiates, Oxymorphone, hydroxy-dihydromorphinone, affects the central nervous system and smooth muscles by activation of specific opiate receptors.
(Oxymorphone, NCI Thesaurus)
Stimulation of the mu receptors produces the typical narcotic effects of analgesia, miosis, euphoria, respiratory depression, sedation, physical dependence and bradycardia.
(Dihydrocodeine Bitartrate, NCI Thesaurus)
