What are some opposite words for narcotic?

Antonyms for narcotic
nɑrˈkɒt ɪknar·cot·ic

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Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. narcoticadjective

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

    Antonyms:
    stimulative, interesting

  2. narcoticadjective

    of or relating to or designating narcotics

    "narcotic addicts"; "narcotic stupor"

    Antonyms:
    stimulative, interesting

    Synonyms:
    soporific, narcotising, narcotizing, soporiferous

  3. narcotic, narcotizing, narcotisingadjective

    inducing stupor or narcosis

    "narcotic drugs"

    Antonyms:
    stimulative, interesting

    Synonyms:
    soporific, narcotising, narcotizing, soporiferous

  4. narcotic, soporiferous, soporificadjective

    inducing mental lethargy

    "a narcotic speech"

    Antonyms:
    stimulative, interesting

    Synonyms:
    narcotizing, narcotising, hypnagogic, somnific, somniferous, hypnogogic, soporific, soporiferous

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. narcoticnoun

    Synonyms:
    stupefacient, sedative, anæsthetic, opiate, anodyne

How to use narcotic in a sentence?

  1. Thomas Szasz:

    The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

  2. Aaron White:

    Mixing alcohol and other sedatives, like sleeping pills, narcotic pain medications or muscle relaxers, can compound these problems and potentially cause injuries and death.

  3. Franklin D. Roosevelt:

    We have here a human as well as an economic problem. When humane considerations are concerned, Americans give them precedence. The lessons of history, confirmed by the evidence immediately before me, show conclusively that continued dependence upon relief induces a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fibre. To dole out relief in this way is to administer a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the human spirit.

  4. William Jacobson:

    The city would have to be sure it’s dotted all the legal i’s and crossed all the legal t’s before it gets into assisting the use of a narcotic.

  5. Thomas Britton:

    [The FDA] adheres to strict tracking guidelines that would make it difficult for counterfeit drugs to show up in pharmacies, regardless of that fact, anybody who is prescribed a narcotic should be aware of the high addictive potential of these medications.

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