Opium

Quick meaning: Opium is a noun meaning (by extension, countable) Anything that numbs or stupefies.

Meaning

(by extension, countable) Anything that numbs or stupefies.

More Meanings

1. (uncountable) A yellow-brown, addictive narcotic drug obtained from the dried juice of unripe pods of the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum, and containing alkaloids such as morphine, codeine, and papaverine.

Example Sentences

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, […] It is the opium of the people.

Opium is largely used by the Chinese as a sexual provocation, both by men and women.

From hence we firſt ſailed to Achin, in the iſland of Sumatra, and then to Siam, where we bartered our wares for ſome arrack and opium, the laſt of which bore a great price among the Chineſe:[…]

When Zhang Jiao and his Yellow Turbans send their peasants, they're not sending their best. They're sending peasants with lots of problems and the peasants bring their problems across the Yangtze. They're bringing opium, they're bandits. And some, I assume, are good people.

Word Forms

• opiums
• opia

Synonyms for opium

Depending on context, synonyms include chandu, gee, gondola, meconium, mud, ope.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include heroin, opiate, eater, cultivation, poppy, narcotic.

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