An addictive narcotic extracted from seed capsules of the opium poppy.

Roget 376: insensibility, physical insensibility; obtuseness etc. adj.; palsy, paralysis, paraesthesia [Med.], anaesthesia; sleep etc. 823; hemiplegia^†, motor paralysis; vegetable state; coma.    anaesthetic agent, opium, ether, chloroform, chloral; nitrous oxide, laughing gas; exhilarating gas, protoxide of nitrogen; refrigeration.    ... show more

Roget 174: moderation, lenity etc. 740; temperateness, gentleness etc. adj.; sobriety; quiet; mental calmness etc. (inexcitability) 826^†.    moderating etc. v.; anaphrodisia^†; relaxation, remission, mitigation, tranquilization^†, assuagement, contemporation^†, pacification.    measure, juste milieu [Fr.], golden mean, ariston metron [Gr.].    moderator; lullaby, sedative, lenitive, demulcent, antispasmodic, carminative, laudanum; rose water, balm, poppy, opiate, anodyne, milk, opium, poppy or mandragora;" wet blanket; palliative.    ... show more

Roget 954: intemperance; sensuality, animalism, carnality; tragalism^†; pleasure; effeminacy, silkiness; luxury, luxuriousness; lap of pleasure, lap of luxury; free living.    indulgence; high living, wild living, inabstinence^†, self-indulgence; voluptuousness etc. adj.; epicurism, epicureanism; sybaritism; drug habit.    dissipation; licentiousness etc. adj.; debauchery; crapulence^†.    revels, revelry; debauch, carousal, jollification, drinking bout, wassail, saturnalia, orgies; excess, too much.    Circean cup.    [drugs of abuse: list] bhang, hashish, marijuana, pot [Coll.], hemp [Coll.], grass [Coll.]; opium, cocaine, morphine, heroin; LSD, lysergic acid diethylamide [Chem]; phencyclidine, angel dust, PCP; barbiturates; amphetamines, speed [Coll.].    ... show more

Dutch: opium
Polish: opium, laudanum