opiate
Meaning of opiate
adjective
- relating to, resembling, or containing opium.
the use of opiate drugs
- a drug derived from or related to opium.
the opiates are known to have natural counterparts called endorphins
- dull the senses of (someone) with or as if with opium.
he grew old and soft, opiating himself into a dreaming bliss
they opiate the people with the promises of social change that they fail to keep
late Middle English (as a noun): from medieval Latin opiatus (adjective), opiatus (noun), based on Latin opium (see opium).
Information about opiate
- The plural form of opiate is: opiates.
- Languages in which opiate is used:
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Hyphenation of opiate
opi-ate
- It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
- opiate is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
opiate synonyms
Meaning a medicine or other substance which has a physiological effect when ingested or otherwise introduced into the body:
Meaning a drug that relieves pain and induces drowsiness, stupor, or insensibility:
Meaning a drug taken for its calming or sleep-inducing effect:
Meaning a medicinal drug taken to reduce tension or anxiety:
Meaning a depressant drug:
Meaning a drug or other substance that induces drowsiness or sleep:
Meaning a substance that induces insensitivity to pain:
Meaning a drug or a medicine for relieving pain:
Meaning an analgesic drug:
Meaning a painkilling drug or medicine:
Meaning any of a class of sedative and sleep-inducing drugs derived from barbituric acid:
Meaning a compound of bromine with another element or group, especially a salt containing the anion Br− or an organic compound with bromine bonded to an alkyl radical:
Meaning an analgesic and narcotic drug obtained from opium and used medicinally to relieve pain:
Meaning a reddish-brown heavy-scented addictive drug prepared from the juice of the opium poppy, used illicitly as a narcotic and occasionally in medicine as an analgesic:
Meaning an alcoholic solution containing morphine, prepared from opium and formerly used as a narcotic painkiller:
Meaning a calmative drug:
Meaning a palliative medicine, measure, etc:
Meaning a stupefacient drug:
Meaning a drug taken illegally for recreational purposes, especially cannabis:
Meaning a depressant or tranquillizing drug, especially a barbiturate:
Meaning a drug described in Homer's Odyssey as banishing grief or trouble from a person's mind:
Translation of opiate
Words that rhyme with opiate
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