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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "soporific" in a sentence

    soporific example sentences

    soporific


    1. Tai’s earlier report of the soporific drink clearly incapacitated those who might have resisted a tattoo, but here was a whole society


    2. Giving in to the soporific television, I close my eyes, relaxing my head on the soft cushion, just to rise again in haste


    3. The control room at the centre of the CN production plant was a cramped, dingy, soporific environment to work in


    4. One of his officers then broke the soporific silence of the tent


    5. Through the soporific phase, he fought the battle for wakefulness, which only the very strong could win


    6. But, there was something not right, something that did not sit well with him, even in that soporific environment


    7. He would find us full of those excellences Pater calls the more obvious parochial virtues, jealous to madness of the sensitive and bloodthirsty appendage known as our honour, exact in the observance of minor conventionalities, correct in our apparel, rigid in our views, and in our effect uninterruptedly soporific


    8. 'But I don't want to forget mine,' Lucy had said at that, opening her eyes, which as usual had been shut, because the commas of Wemyss's talk with her when they chanced to be alone were his soothing, soporific kisses dropped gently on her closed eyelids


    9. Ideas are not, we know, soporific


    10. the soporific draught, for, instead of exerting my strength, I sunk without motion, though not without sense, on his shoulder, my limbs refusing to obey my will

    11. At first, he’d dipped into it only in the evenings, as a soporific, but soon he’d added an a


    12. When the monotonous sound of Weyrother’s voice ceased, Kutuzov opened his eye as a miller wakes up when the soporific drone of the mill wheel is interrupted


    13. 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


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    Synonyms for "soporific"

    hypnotic soporific narcotic soporiferous hypnagogic hypnogogic somniferous somnific tranquilliser tranquillizer sedative anaesthetic opiate tranquil

    "soporific" definitions

    a drug that induces sleep


    sleep inducing


    inducing mental lethargy