opium
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.
Other meanings
Anything that numbs or stupefies.
A kind of
- narcotic
- controlled substance
Related words
- antiopium
- antiopiumist
- lanthopine
- opianine
- opiomania
- opiorphin
- opiumism
- opiumist
- opiumlike
- lettuce opium
- opium alkaloid
- opium den
Word history
From Ancient Greek "ὄπιον".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “opium” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.