soporific

[ sop-uh-rif-ik, soh-puh- ]

/ ˌsɒp əˈrɪf ɪk, ˌsoʊ pə- /

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adjective

causing or tending to cause sleep.

pertaining to or characterized by sleep or sleepiness; sleepy; drowsy.

noun

something that causes sleep, as a medicine or drug.

Origin of soporific

1655–65; < Latin sopor sopor + -i- + -fic; compare French soporifique

OTHER WORDS FROM soporific

sop·o·rif·i·cal·ly, adverb an·ti·sop·o·rif·ic, adjective, noun non·sop·or·if·ic, adjective, noun un·sop·o·rif·ic, adjective

Words nearby soporific

sophonias, sophrosyne, sophy, sopor, soporiferous, soporific, soporose, soporous, sopping, soppy, sopranino

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“Gently rolling hills” roll not-so-gently under my tires, but the English countryside scenery is soporific.

Biking With the Bard |Kara Cutruzzula |December 28, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
A travelogue of the drug-testing labs at Pfizer, Eli Lilly, or GlaxoSmithKline would likely be soporific.

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Yet Diana, with its soporific romance and awful dialogue, is a colossal bore.

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Unlike other soporific cabinet secretaries, Homeland Security director is a position people really do care about.

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The premise is this: turkey is chock-full of a soporific essential amino acid, tryptophan, one of the 22 essential amino acids.

Eat Turkey All You Want! It’s Not Going to Put You to Sleep |Kent Sepkowitz |November 22, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
Modern physicians find one species of Gentian soporific and use it to procure sleep for the weary sufferer.

A Garden with House Attached |Sarah Warner Brooks
Lamberti stayed with him till he fell asleep under the influence of a soporific medicine, and then called the man-servant.

Cecilia |F. Marion Crawford
The restlessness of the sea acts as a soporific on jangled nerves.

The Journal of a Disappointed Man |Wilhelm Nero Pilate Barbellion
Gum opium contains active principles (alkaloids), to which it owes its peculiar stimulating, soporific, and pain-relieving powers.

Birds and all Nature Vol VII, No. 3, March 1900 |Various
The first pages of most of these old papers are as soporific as a bed of poppies.

Old News |Nathaniel Hawthorne

British Dictionary definitions for soporific

soporific

/ (ˌsɒpəˈrɪfɪk) /

adjective Also: archaic soporiferous

inducing sleep

drowsy; sleepy

noun

a drug or other agent that induces sleep

Derived forms of soporific

soporifically, adverb

Medical definitions for soporific

soporific

[ sŏp′ə-rĭf′ĭk, sō′pə- ]

adj.

Inducing or tending to induce sleep.

Sleepy; drowsy.

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adjective Also: archaic soporiferous

noun

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adj.

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adjective Also: archaic soporiferous

noun

Derived forms of soporific

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