narcotic

1. 1.

   a drug that produces numbness or stupor; often taken for pleasure or to reduce pain; extensive use can lead to addiction

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Other forms of narcotic

plural

narcotics·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about narcotic

What does narcotic mean?

narcotic means "of or relating to or designating narcotics". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in narcotic?

narcotic has 3 syllables: nar-co-tic. The stress falls on "co". In IPA it is /nɑɹˈkɑtɪk/.

What is another word for narcotic?

Close synonyms include narcotizing, narcotising, soporiferous, soporific. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is narcotic a common word?

narcotic is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with narcotic?

1 word rhymes with narcotic. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.