Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Relating to or affected with narcolepsy.

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  • noun One who suffers from narcolepsy
  • adjective Pertaining to narcolepsy

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a person who has narcolepsy
  • adjective of or relating to narcolepsy
  • noun a soporific drug that produces an uncontrollable desire to sleep

Etymologies

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narco- + -leptic

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Examples

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  • Where, say, undergraduate Marxists share a certain narcoleptic insouciance, freshly afflicted Randians evince a showier disregard for those who can’t or won’t see the light.

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  • We sat and talked but our conversation was punctuated by her narcoleptic lapses into sleep.

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  • Also on deck in this busy episode: Jerry Stiller as a narcoleptic judge, and Ugly Betty's America Ferrera as the illegal nanny of Peter's campaign rival Wendy Scott-Carr, which puts her on Eli Gold's radar.

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  • I dont know whats come over me A narcoleptic cloud or the fact that lent is approaching and with it the lack of carbohydrates.

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  • The continuing adventures of a narcoleptic piano accordianist.

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  • I really have been laughing about what you wrote espeically about being narcoleptic and the red light bulb makes them look evil!

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  • See, Goofy, you narcoleptic moron, this is why you can't hold onto a job.

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  • This is a modern homage to noir, featuring a narcoleptic detective.

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  • See, Goofy, you narcoleptic moron, this is why you can't hold onto a job.

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