- opiate
- n1.Informal. drug, narcotic, depressant, sedative, tranquilizer, soporific, somnifacient, hypnotic, stupefacient; painkiller, analgesic, Pharm. hyoscyamine, Pharm. belladonna; morphine, opium, laudanum; barbiturate, Sl. barbs, Inf. down or downer, quaalude, Sl. lude, Sl. red; heroin, Sl. H. Sl. horse, Sl. smack, Sl. junk, Sl. scag, Sl. crank; Sl. dope, marijuana, U.S. Sl. Mary-Jane or MJ, Sl. pot, Sl. grass, Sl. weed, Sl. reefer; hashish, Sl. hash.2. anodyne, lenitive, palliative, assuager, nepenthe, Med. calmative.
A Note on the Style of the synonym finder. 2014.