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Soporific - 8 dictionary results

sop⋅o⋅rif⋅ic

[sop-uh-rif-ik, soh-puh-]
–adjective
1. causing or tending to cause sleep.
2. pertaining to or characterized by sleep or sleepiness; sleepy; drowsy.
–noun
3. something that causes sleep, as a medicine or drug.

Origin:
1655–65; < L sopor sopor + -i- + -fic; cf. F soporifique


sop⋅o⋅rif⋅i⋅cal⋅ly, adverb
sop·o·rif·ic   (sŏp'ə-rĭf'ĭk, sō'pə-)   
adj.  
  1. Inducing or tending to induce sleep.
  2. Drowsy.
n.  A drug or other substance that induces sleep; a hypnotic.

Soporific

Sop`o*rif"ic\ (?; 277), a. [L. sopor a heavy sleep (akin to somnus sleep) + facere to make. See Somnolent, Fact.] Causing sleep; tending to cause sleep; soporiferous; as, the soporific virtues of opium.

Syn: Somniferous; narcotic; opiate; anodyne.

Soporific

Sop`o*rif"ic\, n. A medicine, drug, plant, or other agent that has the quality of inducing sleep; a narcotic.

soporific 
1690, from Fr. soporifique (1687), formed in Fr. from L. sopor (gen. soporis) "deep sleep," from a causative form of the PIE base *swep- "to sleep" (see somnolence).

Main Entry: 1so·po·rif·ic
Pronunciation: -'rif-ik
Function: adjective
: causing or tending to cause sleep

Main Entry: 2soporific
Function: noun
: a soporific agent (as a drug)

soporific sop·o·rif·ic (sŏp'ə-rĭf'ĭk, sō'pə-)
adj.

  1. Inducing or tending to induce sleep.
  2. Sleepy; drowsy.

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