Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Inducing stupor; stupefying or narcotic.
- noun A drug, such as a narcotic, that induces stupor.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a stupefying power.
- noun A medicine which produces stupor or insensibility; a narcotic.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Producing stupefaction; stupefactive.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective medicine inducing
stupor ordrowsiness (with a drug such as a narcotic or an anaesthetic) - noun medicine a drug that has the above effect
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Latin stupefaciēns, stupefacient-, present participle of stupefacere, to stupefy; see stupefy.]
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Examples
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Yo, son, I spent all day up on yo 'ninja website, as it were, drowning in a stupefacient pool, making me a worser person.
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Could it also be that our defiant devotion to our favorite stupefacient, combined with the effects of said stupefacient, invites us to dream up quasi-religious justifications for getting zonked four times a day as a sort of sacramental ritual?
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