narcotics
narcotics is the plural of narcotic.
Meaning of narcotic
Noun
narcotic (plural narcotics)
- Any substance or drug that reduces pain, induces sleep and may alter mood or behaviour; in some contexts, especially in reference to the opiates-and-opioids class, especially in reference to illegal drugs, and often both.
- "Real San Juan Colorado," he said. "Excitable people like you are the better for narcotics. Heavens! don't bite it! Cut - and cut with reverence!"1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC
- Any type of numbing or soothing drug.
- But, for the unquiet heart and brain,
A use in measured language lies;
The sad mechanic exercise,
Like dull narcotics, numbing pain.1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto V”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC
- But, for the unquiet heart and brain,
Adjective
narcotics (not comparable)
- Pertaining to illicit drugs, especially psychoactive ones.
Origin of narcotics
From narcotic + -s.
Words formed from narcotics
- anti-narcotics
- antinarcotics
- counter-narcotics
- counternarcotics
Questions about narcotics
- What does narcotics mean?
- Narcotics means pertaining to illicit drugs, especially psychoactive ones.
- What is narcotics the plural of?
- Narcotics is the plural of narcotic.
- What part of speech is narcotics?
- Narcotics is an adjective.
Words near narcotics in the dictionary
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