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hypnotic
/hɪpˈnɑ.tɪk/
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What does hypnotic mean?
adjective
- Of or relating to hypnosis or hypnotism.
- Capturing a person's attention to the exclusion of all else, as if placing them into a trance.
- Inducing sleep; soporific.
More meanings (3)
noun
- A person who is, or can be, hypnotized.
- A soporific substance.
adjective
- (obsolete) Dormant.
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IPA pronunciation
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One could almost have sworn the man believed these creatures of his strange hypnotic power to be real flesh and blood.
Her father implored the family doctor to endeavour to persuade her, while in the hypnotic state, to reform her deplorable conduct.
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He felt able to restore speech with a hypnotic sleep and the proper hypnotic suggestion while I was in the trance.
Mrs. Harker’s hypnotic report this morning was the same as usual, so it is possible that we may get news at any moment.
The feasibility of practising hypnotism in child-birth has been discussed, and Fanton reports 12 cases of parturition under the hypnotic influence.