- causing or tending to cause sleepalso sop·o·rif′er·ous
- of or characterized by sleep or sleepiness
Origin of soporific
French soporifique: see sopor and -fic something, as a drug, that causes sleep
adjective
- The way you feel after a sleeping pill is an example of something that would be described as a soporific medication.
- A speech that makes you drowsy is an example of something that would be described as a soporific presentation.
The definition of soporific is something that tends to make you tired or that makes you sleepy or drowsy.
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soporific
adjective
- Inducing or tending to induce sleep.
- Drowsy.
noun
A drug or other substance that induces sleep; a hypnotic.
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Noun
(plural soporifics)
Adjective
(comparative more soporific, superlative most soporific)
Origin
From French soporifique, from Latin sopor (“deep sleep"), from Proto-Indo-European *swepÅr, from Proto-Indo-European *swep-. Unrelated to stupor (distinct in Proto-Indo-European).
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soporific - Medical Definition
adj.
- Inducing or tending to induce sleep.
- Drowsy.
n.
A drug or other substance that induces sleep; a hypnotic.
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Sentence Examples
- Moliere's medical student accounts for it by a soporific principle contained in the opium.
- According to Sir Thomas Fraser nothing else can compete with alcohol as a food in desperate febrile cases, and to this use must be added its antipyretic power already explained and its action as a soporific. During its administration in febrile cases the drug must be most carefully watched, as its action may prove deleterious to the nervous system and the circulation in certain classes of patient.
- In such cases the soporific action is not that which is sought, and so opium is preferable.
Words near soporific in the dictionary
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