opiate

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Relating to, resembling, or containing opium.

2. 2

   Soporific

   Soporific; inducing sleep or sedation.

3. 3

   Deadening

   Deadening; causing apathy or dullness.

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   1. 4

      A drug, hormone or other substance derived from or related to opium.

   2. 5

      Something that dulls the senses and induces a false and unrealistic sense of contentment.

      • 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.
   3. 6

      To treat with an opiate drug.

The neighborhood

• neighboropioid