opiate

Meaning of opiate

adjective
  1. relating to, resembling, or containing opium.
    the use of opiate drugs
noun
  1. a drug derived from or related to opium.
    the opiates are known to have natural counterparts called endorphins
verb
  1. 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.
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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:

drug

Meaning a drug that relieves pain and induces drowsiness, stupor, or insensibility:

narcotic

Meaning a drug taken for its calming or sleep-inducing effect:

sedative

Meaning a medicinal drug taken to reduce tension or anxiety:

tranquillizer

Meaning a depressant drug:

depressant

Meaning a drug or other substance that induces drowsiness or sleep:

soporific

Meaning a substance that induces insensitivity to pain:

anaesthetic

Meaning a drug or a medicine for relieving pain:

painkiller

Meaning an analgesic drug:

analgesic

Meaning a painkilling drug or medicine:

anodyne

Meaning any of a class of sedative and sleep-inducing drugs derived from barbituric acid:

barbiturate

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:

bromide

Meaning an analgesic and narcotic drug obtained from opium and used medicinally to relieve pain:

morphine

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:

opium

Meaning an alcoholic solution containing morphine, prepared from opium and formerly used as a narcotic painkiller:

laudanum

Meaning a calmative drug:

calmative

Meaning a palliative medicine, measure, etc:

palliative

Meaning a stupefacient drug:

stupefacient

Meaning a drug taken illegally for recreational purposes, especially cannabis:

dope

Meaning a depressant or tranquillizing drug, especially a barbiturate:

downer

Meaning a drug described in Homer's Odyssey as banishing grief or trouble from a person's mind:

nepenthes

Translation of opiate

Words that rhyme with opiate

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