What is another word for nicotine?

Pronunciation: [nˈɪkətˌiːn] (IPA)

Nicotine, a highly addictive substance found in tobacco and e-cigarettes, has various synonyms that refer to the same substance. One of the most widely-used synonyms for nicotine is "tobacco alkaloid". This refers to the alkaline chemical composition of nicotine. Another synonym is "smoking drug". Nicotine is known for its mood-altering effects which can provide a stimulating and relaxing experience for those taking it, hence this nickname. It is also commonly referred to as the "cigarette drug" or "vaping chemical". Other terms that are sometimes used include "tobacco juice" and "nicotiana kute". Ultimately, regardless of which synonym is used, nicotine remains a highly dangerous and addictive substance that poses a significant threat to health.

What are the hypernyms for Nicotine?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the hyponyms for Nicotine?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.

What are the holonyms for Nicotine?

Holonyms are words that denote a whole whose part is denoted by another word.
  • holonyms for nicotine (as nouns)

Usage examples for Nicotine

For the most part he sat still, swathed to the eyes in his furs; he huddled down over the fire smoking, every now and then pausing to thaw the nicotine in the stem of his pipe.
"In the Brooding Wild"
Ridgwell Cullum
Smiling dourly, with satisfaction, he hung up and shoved the telephone away again, then turned to his still reflecting partner, who had now hoisted his patent leather boots to the window sill and seemed absorbed in regarding their gloss through a blue veil of nicotine.
"The Air Trust"
George Allan England
You enter at once into a stifling, stove heated bar-room, defiled with all nicotine abominations, where, for the first few minutes, you draw your breath hard, and then settle down into a dull, uneasy stupor, conscious of nothing except a weight tightening around your temples like a band of molten iron.
"Border and Bastille"
George A. Lawrence

Famous quotes with Nicotine

  • The book can produce an addiction as fierce as heroin or nicotine, forcing us to spend much of our lives, like junkies, in book shops and libraries, those literary counterparts to the opium den.
    Phillip Adams
  • Cigarettes, I won't do cigarettes, nicotine will kill ya.
    Tommy Chong
  • If they took all the drugs, nicotine, alcohol and caffeine off the market for six days, they'd have to bring out the tanks to control you.
    Dick Gregory
  • Anything that affects your senses … is your business. If you want to kill yourself through nicotine or cyanide, it's your business.
    Timothy Leary
  • Liar, liar, pants on fire....the man was a liar....To be true means to be grounded at your core, and Burgess never was....The habitual bending of the truth for ulterior motives had important consequences for Burgess's art. Cavalier liars think that anything will do. The idea of revising something to make it more true never occurs to him. Yet this inner truth is the essence of great art....Burgess told me that fecundity as a writer was a parallel of erotic freeing-up and that careful writers were not sexual people. He was clearly boasting that what made him a prolific author also made him a great lay. Not so....Burgess thought he was Cervantes, but in fact he is Don Quixote. There is no Burgess book that gives the impression you are reading something entirely grown-up. That a book might be brooded over or lived was alien to him. Instead he gluttonised on nicotine, booze and stimulants....He was not at all vindictive - how rare in the literary world! His kindness and warmth, which showed in his face as well as his conduct, were doubtless among the reasons Graham Greene disliked him (Greene was unnerved by spontaneous personalities; only he was allowed to be spontaneous)....what Burgess put up with from his first wife makes him a saint....how enthusiastic Burgess was with the inner-city kids he taught in New York, endlessly patient with their rudeness and fatuity. Burgess was a cranky charmer who could sound off on anything to fabulous effect - and he wasn't a bully in conversation....He was a terrific journalist. Couldn't write a dreary column to save his life.
    Anthony Burgess

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