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- [sop-uh-rif-ik, soh-puh-]
- /ˌsɒp əˈrɪf ɪk, ˌsoʊ pə-/
- /ˌsɒp.ərˈɪf.ɪk/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [sop-uh-rif-ik, soh-puh-]
- /ˌsɒp əˈrɪf ɪk, ˌsoʊ pə-/
Definitions of soporific word
- adjective soporific causing or tending to cause sleep. 1
- adjective soporific pertaining to or characterized by sleep or sleepiness; sleepy; drowsy. 1
- noun soporific something that causes sleep, as a medicine or drug. 1
- adjective soporific sleep-inducing 1
- adjective soporific sleepy, drowsy 1
- adjective soporific boring, monotonous 1
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Origin of soporific
First appearance:
before 1655 One of the 46% oldest English words
1655-65; < Latin sopor sopor + -i- + -fic; compare French soporifique
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Parts of speech for Soporific
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adjective
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pronoun
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soporific popularity
A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 69% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
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noun soporific
- anaesthetic — Anaesthetic is a substance that doctors use to stop you feeling pain during an operation, either in the whole of your body when you are unconscious, or in a part of your body when you are awake.
- anesthetic — relating to, with, or characterized by anesthesia
- barbiturate — A barbiturate is a drug which people take to make them calm or to help them to sleep.
- barbiturates — any of a group of barbituric acid derivatives, used in medicine as sedatives and hypnotics.
- benzodiazepine — any of a group of chemical compounds that are used as minor tranquillizers, such as diazepam (Valium) and chlordiazepoxide (Librium)
adj soporific
- banausic — merely mechanical; materialistic; utilitarian
- calmative — (of a remedy or agent) sedative
- confidentiality — spoken, written, acted on, etc., in strict privacy or secrecy; secret: a confidential remark.
- dopy — stupid; inane: It was rather dopey of him to lock himself out.
- dozy — drowsy; half asleep.
adjective soporific
- longwinded — Alternative spelling of long-winded.
- nodding — to make a slight, quick downward bending forward of the head, as in assent, greeting, or command.
- nowhere — in or at no place; not anywhere: The missing pen was nowhere to be found.
- quietening — Present participle of quieten.
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