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soporific
/ˌsɑp.əˈɹɪf.ɪk/
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What does soporific mean?
noun
- Something inducing sleep, especially a drug.
- (figuratively) Something boring or dull.
adjective
- Tending to induce sleep.
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adjective
- (figuratively) Boring, dull.
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Some authorities hold that the proper books for a guest-room are of a soporific quality that will induce swift and painless repose.
Evidently soporific substances had been mixed with the food we had just taken.
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When the monotonous sound of Weyrother’s voice ceased, Kutúzov opened his eye as a miller wakes up when the soporific drone of the mill wheel is interrupted.
When one would not do any thing to promote it, when one would do any thing to put a period to it, when one is too insignificant to contribute to either, I must own I see no blame in thinking an active age more agreeable to live in, than a soporific one.
Against this kind of "good-will"--a will to the veritable, actual negation of life--there is, as is generally acknowledged nowadays, no better soporific and sedative than skepticism, the mild, pleasing, lulling poppy of skepticism; and Hamlet himself is now prescribed by the doctors of the day as an antidote to the "spirit," and its underground noises.