Religion is the opiate of the masses.
Source: tatoeba (703288)
Opiate
//ˈəʊpi.ət//
Synonyms for "opiate" (109 found)
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Closest matches (22)
Strong matches (33)
Related words (54)
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4 entriesat location
1 entriesderived
4 entriesis a
4 entriesrelated to
19 entriesShowing 16 of 19 words.
Translations
42 translations across 38 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- أَفْيُونِيّ noun (drug, hormone or other substance derived from or related to opium)
Armenian
1 entries- օպիատներ noun (drug, hormone or other substance derived from or related to opium)
Basque
1 entries- opiazeo noun (drug, hormone or other substance derived from or related to opium)
Bulgarian
1 entries- опиат noun (drug, hormone or other substance derived from or related to opium)
Catalan
1 entries- opiaci noun (drug, hormone or other substance derived from or related to opium)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 鴉片製劑 /鸦片制剂 noun (drug, hormone or other substance derived from or related to opium)
Czech
1 entries- opiát noun (drug, hormone or other substance derived from or related to opium)
Danish
1 entries- opiat noun (drug, hormone or other substance derived from or related to opium)
Dutch
1 entries- opiaat noun (drug, hormone or other substance derived from or related to opium)
Esperanto
1 entries- opiaĵo noun (drug, hormone or other substance derived from or related to opium)
Finnish
1 entries- opiaatti noun (drug, hormone or other substance derived from or related to opium)
French
1 entries- opiacé noun (drug, hormone or other substance derived from or related to opium)
Georgian
1 entries- ოპიატე noun (drug, hormone or other substance derived from or related to opium)
German
1 entries- Opiat noun (drug, hormone or other substance derived from or related to opium)
Greek
2 entries- οπιοειδές noun (drug, hormone or other substance derived from or related to opium)
- οπιούχο noun (drug, hormone or other substance derived from or related to opium)
Hungarian
1 entries- ópiát noun (drug, hormone or other substance derived from or related to opium)
Icelandic
1 entries- ópíöt noun (drug, hormone or other substance derived from or related to opium)
Indonesian
1 entries- madat noun (drug, hormone or other substance derived from or related to opium)
Italian
2 entries- oppiaceo noun (drug, hormone or other substance derived from or related to opium)
- oppiato noun (drug, hormone or other substance derived from or related to opium)
Japanese
1 entries- オピエート noun (drug, hormone or other substance derived from or related to opium)
Korean
1 entries- 아편제 noun (drug, hormone or other substance derived from or related to opium)
Lithuanian
1 entries- opiatas noun (drug, hormone or other substance derived from or related to opium)
Manx
1 entries- cadleenag noun (drug, hormone or other substance derived from or related to opium)
Māori
1 entries- whakaporehu māori noun (Something that dulls the senses and induces a false and unrealistic sense of contentment.)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- opiat noun (drug, hormone or other substance derived from or related to opium)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- opiat noun (drug, hormone or other substance derived from or related to opium)
Occitan
1 entries- opiacèu noun (drug, hormone or other substance derived from or related to opium)
Portuguese
1 entries- opiáceo noun (drug, hormone or other substance derived from or related to opium)
Romanian
1 entries- opiaceu noun (drug, hormone or other substance derived from or related to opium)
Russian
1 entries- опиа́т noun (drug, hormone or other substance derived from or related to opium)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- opìjāt noun (drug, hormone or other substance derived from or related to opium)
- опѝја̄т noun (drug, hormone or other substance derived from or related to opium)
Slovene
1 entries- opiat noun (drug, hormone or other substance derived from or related to opium)
Spanish
2 entries- opiato noun (drug, hormone or other substance derived from or related to opium)
- opiáceo noun (drug, hormone or other substance derived from or related to opium)
Swedish
1 entries- opiat noun (drug, hormone or other substance derived from or related to opium)
Thai
1 entries- โอปิแอต noun (drug, hormone or other substance derived from or related to opium)
Turkish
1 entries- opiat noun (drug, hormone or other substance derived from or related to opium)
Ukrainian
1 entries- опіат noun (drug, hormone or other substance derived from or related to opium)
Welsh
1 entries- opiad noun (drug, hormone or other substance derived from or related to opium)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
What did Karl Marx mean when he said that religion was the opiate of the masses?
Source: tatoeba (10921610)
They chose atheism as an opiate.
Source: wiktionary
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.
Source: wiktionary
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