Soporific

[,sɒpə'rɪfɪk] or [,sɑpə'rɪfɪk]

Definition

(noun.) a drug that induces sleep.

(adj.) sleep inducing .

Checker: Spenser--From WordNet

Definition

(a.) Causing sleep; tending to cause sleep; soporiferous; as, the soporific virtues of opium.

(n.) A medicine, drug, plant, or other agent that has the quality of inducing sleep; a narcotic.

Editor: Michel

Synonyms and Synonymous

a. Somniferous, somnific, slumberous, soporiferous, narcotic, hypnotic.

n. Narcotic.

Typed by Evangeline

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Somniferous, narcotic, anodyne, opiate

ANT:Antisoporific, antinarcotic

Checked by Herman

Definition

adj. making or causing sleep.—n. anything that causes sleep.—adj. Soporif′erous bringing causing or tending to cause sleep: sleepy.—adv. Soporif′erously.—n. Soporif′erousness.—adjs. Sō′porōse Sō′porous sleepy causing sleep.

Typist: Naomi