Usually means: Substances that relieve pain, induce sleep.
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We found 45 dictionaries that define the word narcotic:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. narcotic: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. narcotic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. narcotic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. narcotic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. narcotic: Vocabulary.com
  6. Narcotic, narcotic: Wordnik
  7. narcotic: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. narcotic: Wiktionary
  9. narcotic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. narcotic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. narcotic: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. narcotic: Dictionary.com
  13. narcotic (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. narcotic: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Narcotic (Liquido song), Narcotic (disambiguation), Narcotic (patience), Narcotic (song), Narcotic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Narcotic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. narcotic: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. narcotic: Rhymezone
  19. Narcotic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. narcotic: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. narcotic: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. narcotic: Free Dictionary
  23. narcotic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. narcotic: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Narcotic: Health & Beauty Glossary
  2. -narcotic: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. narcotic: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. narcotic: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. narcotic: Encyclopedia

Medicine (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Narcotic: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  5. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  6. narcotic: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  7. Glossary of HIV/AIDS Related Terms (No longer online)
  8. -narcotic, narcotic: Medical dictionary
  9. Narcotic: Drug Medical Dictionary
  10. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. narcotic: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Narcotic: Beauty & Health Glossary

(Note: See narcotically as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (pharmacology) 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.
noun:  Any type of numbing or soothing drug.
adjective:  Of, or relating to narcotics.
adjective:  (pharmacology) Inducing sleep; causing narcosis.

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