| 单词 | narcoleptic |
| 释义 | narcoleptic (once / 393978 pages) adjn Someone who's narcoleptic has a disorder that makes them fall asleep very abruptly in the middle of the day. A narcoleptic bus driver could be dangerous. Narcoleptic can be an adjective or a noun, describing the condition of narcolepsy or a person who suffers from it. A narcoleptic has a sleep disorder that makes him exhausted, even after a full night's sleep. Some narcoleptics drop off to sleep in the middle of a sentence, while others just become very sleepy throughout the day. A French doctor coined the word narcolepsie from the Greek roots narke, "numbness or stupor," and lepsis, "attack or seizure." WORD FAMILYnarcoleptic: narcoleptics+/narcolepsy: narcoleptic USAGE EXAMPLESQ: Are you the first songwriter ever to rhyme “septic” with “narcoleptic”? Washington Times(Aug 01, 2016) Over most of the round, Spieth was so sedate he seemed almost narcoleptic. Washington Post(Apr 11, 2016) He has his narcoleptic patients sometimes keep diaries to try and determine if specific foods make their dreams more ghoulish. Wall Street Journal(Apr 11, 2016) 1adj of or relating to narcolepsy 2n a person who has narcolepsy Hyper diseased person, sick person, sufferer a person suffering from an illness 3n a soporific drug that produces an uncontrollable desire to sleep Hyper hypnotic, soporific a drug that induces sleep |
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