Soporific

Soporific
Something such as a drug that causes or induces profound sleep. Tending to cause sleep or to dull the sense of awareness or alertness. The word "soporific" is derived from "sopor" meaning "deep sleep." The root is "somnus," the Latin for "sleep" (and the name of the Roman god of sleep.)
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1. Causing sleep. SYN: somnifacient, somniferous, somnific, soporiferous. 2. SYN: hypnotic (2). [L. sopor, deep sleep, + facio, to make]

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so·po·rif·ic -'rif-ik adj causing or tending to cause sleep
soporific n a soporific agent (as a drug)

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n.

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sop·o·rif·ic (sop″o-rifґik) (so″po-rifґik) [sopor + L. facere to make] 1. causing or inducing profound sleep. 2. hypnotic (def. 2).

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  • Soporific — Sop o*rif ic, n. A medicine, drug, plant, or other agent that has the quality of inducing sleep; a narcotic. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • soporific — index drug, narcotic (adjective) and (noun), pedestrian Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • soporific — 1680s, from Fr. soporifique (1687), formed in French from L. sopor (gen. soporis) deep sleep, from a causative form of the PIE root *swep to sleep (see SOMNOLENCE (Cf. somnolence)) …   Etymology dictionary

  • soporific — [adj] sleepy; sleep inducing anesthetic, balmy, calming, deadening, dozy*, drowsy, dull, hypnotic, mesmerizing, narcotic, nodding, numbing, opiate, quietening, sedative, slumberous, snoozy*, somniferous, somnolent, soothing, tranquilizing;… …   New thesaurus

  • soporific — [säp΄ərif′ər əs, sō΄pərif′ər əssäp΄ə rif′ik, sō΄pərif′ik] adj. [Fr soporifique: see SOPOR & FIC] 1. causing or tending to cause sleep: also soporiferous [säp΄ərif′ər əs, sō΄pərif′ər əs] 2. of or characterized by sleep or sleepiness n. something,… …   English World dictionary

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  • soporific — 1. adjective 1) soporific drugs Syn: sleep inducing, sedative, somnolent, calmative, tranquilizing, narcotic, opiate; drowsy, sleepy, somniferous; Medicine hypnotic Ant: invigorating 2) a soporific …   Thesaurus of popular words

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