Opiate
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈəʊpi.ət/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Opiate is an adjective meaning (pharmacology) Relating to, resembling, or containing opium.
Meaning
(pharmacology) Relating to, resembling, or containing opium.
More Meanings
- Soporific; inducing sleep or sedation.
- Deadening; causing apathy or dullness.
- (pharmacology) A drug, hormone or other substance derived from or related to opium.
- Something that dulls the senses and induces a false and unrealistic sense of contentment.
- (transitive) To treat with an opiate drug.
Example Sentences
They chose atheism as an opiate.
The music—the fragrance of the flowers, whose odour was exhaling in the now falling dew—the languor of recent exertion—the sense of past dangers and present security—operated on Beatrice like the first and delicious stage of an opiate.
Word Forms
- opiates
- opiating
- opiated
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include opioid, opium, drug, narcotic, analgesic, painkiller.
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