1. soporific - Noun
2. soporific - Adjective
3. soporific - Adjective Satellite
Causing sleep; tending to cause sleep; soporiferous; as, the soporific virtues of opium.
A medicine, drug, plant, or other agent that has the quality of inducing sleep; a narcotic.
Source: Webster's dictionarya narcotic speech Source: Internet
Entering the interior of the cabin, one is engulfed by a dense, soporific buzzing emanating from the more than 20 hives inlaid into one of the walls. Source: Internet
Zimbabwe's biggest banking group CBZ Holdings yesterday said it was suspending payments for DStv, which has become a major alternative to the soporific menu of ZBC TV. Source: Internet
This idea was the basis of the "soporific sponge" ("sleep sponge"), introduced by the Salerno school of medicine in the late twelfth century and by Ugo Borgognoni (1180–1258) in the thirteenth century. Source: Internet
The forms are familiar red brick and ribbon-strip windows broken by copper and bronze elements – all carried through with a literal-mindedness that borders on the soporific." Source: Internet
Treatment for insomnia in psychiatry dates back to 1869 when chloral hydrate was first used as a soporific. Source: Internet