soporific

Speech parts

1. soporific - Noun

2. soporific - Adjective

3. soporific - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

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 dictionary

Synonyms

narcotic somniferous hypnotic opiate anodyne hypnagogic soporiferous somnific hypnogogic sandman mandrake downer poppy bromide sleepy
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Antonyms

bennie energizer reveille interesting exciting stimulating
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Hypernyms

drug hypnagogue

Hyponyms

sleeping pill narcoleptic sleeping draught sleeping tablet sleeping capsule

Phrases with the word

soporific drug

Examples

a 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

Close letter words and terms

soporiferous soporiferously soporiferousness soporific drug soporifical soporifically