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Plural of narcotic

regular plural

The plural of narcotic is narcotics.

Forms of narcotic

Singularnarcotic /nɑːˈkɒtɪk/
Pluralnarcotics
Countablecountable

Narcotics in a sentence

  • "Excitable people like you are the better for narcotics.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC
  • In 2016, the CDC established guidelines for prescribing narcotics for chronic pain.2017 March 20, Nadia Kounang, “Prescriptions may hold clues to who gets hooked on opioids, study says”, in CNN
  • My narcotics anonymous sponsor became my best friend when I finally was able to do something about my meth problem.From the entry sponsor
  • The forfeitability of the claimant’s vehicle was likely due to the fact that she, the claimant, had sold illegal narcotics from the vehicle on three separate occasions.From the entry forfeitability
  • Roosevelt is on strong narcotics for pain and could answer irrationally.2012, daniel storm, chapter 14, in Not Afraid to Kill-Not Afraid to Die, Elm Grove, Wis.: William J. Pulkinen & Associates, →ISBN. From the entry irrationally

Meaning of narcotic

  1. noun 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.
  2. noun Any type of numbing or soothing drug.
  3. adjective Of, or relating to narcotics.

Full definition of narcotic

Questions about the plural of narcotic

What is the plural of narcotic?
The plural of narcotic is narcotics.
Is narcotic countable?
Narcotic is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: narcotic (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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