OPIUM
What does "OPIUM" mean?
A narcotic drug made from the dried latex of the opium poppy.
Meanings
- An addictive drug prepared from the milky sap of the unripe opium poppy seed pod, the source of morphine and codeine. Raw opium is scored from the poppy pod and left to weep overnight.
- Something that dulls awareness or soothes people into passivity. Endless scrolling has become a kind of pocket-sized opium. figurative
Did you know?
- Morphine, first isolated from opium by Friedrich Sertürner around 1804, was named after Morpheus, the Greek god of dreams - the chemist named the sleep-inducing compound after the deity of sleep.
"Religion is the opium of the people."— Karl Marx
Word origin
From Latin 'opium', from Greek 'opion', meaning 'poppy juice', a diminutive of 'opos', the sap or juice of a plant.
Remember it
OPIUM starts like 'opiate' - both flow from the same sleepy poppy.
A little poem
A poppy weeps white-
the field stands bright and harmless
until the knife learns.
haiku
What it teaches
What numbs the pain can also numb the warning the pain was sent to deliver.
Quick facts
What does OPIUM mean?
A narcotic drug made from the dried latex of the opium poppy.
Is OPIUM a valid word?
Yes — OPIUM is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is OPIUM?
OPIUM has 5 letters and 3 syllables.
Where does OPIUM come from?
From Latin 'opium', from Greek 'opion', meaning 'poppy juice', a diminutive of 'opos', the sap or juice of a plant.
What can OPIUM teach us?
What numbs the pain can also numb the warning the pain was sent to deliver.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.