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soporific |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Soporific \Sop`o*rif"ic\, n. A medicine, drug, plant, or other agent that has the quality of inducing sleep; a narcotic. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: soporific adj 1: sleep inducing [syn: {soporiferous}, {somniferous}, {somnific}] 2: inducing mental lethargy; "a narcotic speech" [syn: {narcotic}, {soporiferous}] n : a drug that induces sleep [syn: {hypnotic}]
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