soporific
causing or tending to cause sleep.
pertaining to or characterized by sleep or sleepiness; sleepy; drowsy.
something that causes sleep, as a medicine or drug.
Origin of soporific
1Other 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
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How to use soporific in a sentence
Designers will pixel push, frontend engineers will add clicks to make it more difficult to drop out of a soporific Zoom call, but few companies are ever willing to rip out their database storage engine.
Neo4j raises Neo$325M as graph-based data analysis takes hold in enterprise | Danny Crichton | June 17, 2021 | TechCrunch“Gently rolling hills” roll not-so-gently under my tires, but the English countryside scenery is soporific.
A travelogue of the drug-testing labs at Pfizer, Eli Lilly, or GlaxoSmithKline would likely be soporific.
Yet Diana, with its soporific romance and awful dialogue, is a colossal bore.
Princess Diana Was the Girlfriend From Hell. Why Is This Movie So Boring? | Tina Brown | November 4, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTUnlike other soporific cabinet secretaries, Homeland Security director is a position people really do care about.
The Case for Ray Kelly as Obama’s New Homeland Security Director | John Avlon | July 12, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
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 | THE DAILY BEASTTo whom the prophetess, seeing his neck now bristle with horrid snakes, flings a soporific cake of honey and medicated grain.
The Fatal Dowry | Philip MassingerThere is nothing oratorical in his style of delivery; it is calm, slow, and has a rather soporific influence upon his hearers.
Our Churches and Chapels | AtticusFrom which it appears evident that the actual words used as a soporific allow considerable latitude of choice.
Spirit and Music | H. Ernest HuntI sit dreaming, the rhythmical song and the splashing of the oars exercising a soporific effect.
Trans-Himalaya, Vol. 2 (of 2) | Sven HedinThe odor of a smouldering bough of balsam-fir hung in the air—warm, spicy, soporific.
The Doomsman | Van Tassel Sutphen
British Dictionary definitions for soporific
/ (ˌsɒpəˈrɪfɪk) /
inducing sleep
drowsy; sleepy
a drug or other agent that induces sleep
Derived forms of soporific
- soporifically, adverb
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