Word Meanings - OPIATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Originally, a medicine of a thicker consistence than sirup, prepared with opium. Parr. 2. Any medicine that contains opium, and has the quality of inducing sleep or repose; a narcotic. 3. Anything which induces rest or inaction; that

Additional info about word: OPIATE

1. Originally, a medicine of a thicker consistence than sirup, prepared with opium. Parr. 2. Any medicine that contains opium, and has the quality of inducing sleep or repose; a narcotic. 3. Anything which induces rest or inaction; that which quiets uneasiness. They chose atheism as an opiate. Bentley.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of OPIATE)

• Soporific
• Somniferous
• narcotic
• anodyne
• opiate

Related words: (words related to OPIATE)

• SOPORIFIC
  Causing sleep; tending to cause sleep; soporiferous; as, the soporific virtues of opium. Syn. -- Somniferous; narcotic; opiate; anodyne.
• ANODYNE
  Serving to assuage pain; soothing. The anodyne draught of oblivion. Burke. Note: "The word in chiefly applied to the different preparations of opium, belladonna, hyoscyamus, and lettuce." Am. Cyc.
• NARCOTICAL
  Narcotic. -- Nar*cot"ic*al*ly, adv.
• OPIATED
  1. Mixed with opiates. 2. Under the influence of opiates.
• NARCOTIC
  Having the properties of a narcotic; operating as a narcotic. -- Nar*cot"ic*ness, n.
• OPIATE
  1. Originally, a medicine of a thicker consistence than sirup, prepared with opium. Parr. 2. Any medicine that contains opium, and has the quality of inducing sleep or repose; a narcotic. 3. Anything which induces rest or inaction; that
• SOMNIFEROUS
  Causing or inducing sleep; soporific; dormitive; as, a somniferous potion. Walton.
• SUBNARCOTIC
  Moderately narcotic.