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soporific
[ sop-uh-rif-ik, soh-puh- ]
adjective
- causing or tending to cause sleep.
- pertaining to or characterized by sleep or sleepiness; sleepy; drowsy.
noun
- something that causes sleep, as a medicine or drug.
soporific
/ ˌsɒpəˈrɪfɪk /
adjective
- inducing sleep
- drowsy; sleepy
noun
- a drug or other agent that induces sleep
Derived Forms
- ˌsopoˈrifically, adverb
Other Words From
- sopo·rifi·cal·ly adverb
- anti·sopo·rific adjective noun
- nonsop·or·ific adjective noun
- unsop·o·rific adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of soporific1
Example Sentences
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.
“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.
Unlike other soporific cabinet secretaries, Homeland Security director is a position people really do care about.
The premise is this: turkey is chock-full of a soporific essential amino acid, tryptophan, one of the 22 essential amino acids.
To whom the prophetess, seeing his neck now bristle with horrid snakes, flings a soporific cake of honey and medicated grain.
There is nothing oratorical in his style of delivery; it is calm, slow, and has a rather soporific influence upon his hearers.
From which it appears evident that the actual words used as a soporific allow considerable latitude of choice.
I sit dreaming, the rhythmical song and the splashing of the oars exercising a soporific effect.
The odor of a smouldering bough of balsam-fir hung in the air—warm, spicy, soporific.
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