Definition of soporific Soporific
sop•o•rif•ic
We found 12 definitions of soporific from 6 different sources.
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What does soporific mean?
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NounPlural: soporifics |
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| soporific - a drug that induces sleep | ||
| hypnotic | ||
| drug a substance that is used as a medicine or narcotic | ||
| hypnagogue an agent that induces drowsiness or sleep | ||
| narcoleptic a soporific drug that produces an uncontrollable desire to sleep | ||
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| soporific - sleep inducing | ||
| soporiferous, somniferous, somnific, hypnogogic, hypnagogic | ||
| depressant capable of depressing physiological or psychological activity or response by a chemical agent | ||
| soporific - inducing mental lethargy; "a narcotic speech" | ||
| narcotic, soporiferous | ||
| uninteresting characteristic or suggestive of an institution especially in being uniform or dull or unimaginative; "institutional food" | ||
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- soporific (a.)
Causing sleep; tending to cause sleep; soporiferous; as, the soporific virtues of opium. - soporific (n.)
A medicine, drug, plant, or other agent that has the quality of inducing sleep; a narcotic.
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soporific
Something inducing sleep, especially a drug.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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soporific
sō-pō-rif′ik, adj. making or causing sleep.—n. anything that causes sleep.—adj. Soporif′erous, bringing, causing, or tending to cause sleep: sleepy.—adv. Soporif′erously.—n. Soporif′erousness.—adjs. Sō′porōse, Sō′porous, sleepy, causing sleep. [Fr. soporifique—L. sopor, sleep, facĕre, to make.]
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🔤- soporific, noun, singular of soporifics.
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