soporific
adjective
causing or tending to cause sleep.
soporifics
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pluralof soporific.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Exposure to sunlight prevents the brain from producing melatonin and other natural soporifics.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 23, 2016
It surely ought to work for those viewers lulled these many years by cinema soporifics.
From Time Magazine Archive
Many of the antihistamines, intended to relieve allergies, are also prescribed as soporifics.
From Time Magazine Archive
At least these were incendiary devices; elsewhere one found soporifics.
From Time Magazine Archive
But, for Heaven’s sake, young Sangrado, be a little more sparing of extenuatives and soporifics in your practice than you have been in your poetry.”
From Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats by Barnette Miller
