soporific
IPA: sˈɑpɔrʌfɪk
noun
- (pharmacology) Something inducing sleep, especially a drug.
- (figuratively) Something boring or dull.
adjective
- (pharmacology) Tending to induce sleep.
- (figuratively) Boring, dull.
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Examples of "soporific" in Sentences
- Such drugs are called soporific.
- It was as soporific as I thought.
- I hope this wasn't soporific or vapid.
- Some drugs are soporific and addictive.
- It is pity that his music's so soporific.
- For many others, it is powerfully soporific.
- Moyers' documentaries are languorous, even soporific.
- According to one hypothesis, he mixed alcohol with soporific drugs.
- Could anyone ever consider terrific a delivery best called soporific?
- "soporific" -- and in explaining Santayana's eventual road to prestige
- These plants are a thorny weed, a soporific, and a poison, respectively.
- This gives him the opportunity to drug Goth and Throbb with a soporific herb.
- It was part of the reason that my vocabulary at age three included the word 'soporific'.
- How about it Rudy - buy me a pastrami sandwich for every time I call a Romney speech "soporific"?
- The best I can say about the first half of the performance is that I don't often get to use the word "soporific" in casual conversation.
- It may be remembered that Archibald, in what we may term his soporific period, had manifested a strong, although entirely irrational, repugnance to this east chamber.
- While he quarreled with descriptions of his speaking style as "soporific," Kerry tacitly acknowledged that he failed to connect with enough voters on a personal level.
- The first half could best be described as soporific, the encounter displaying all the characteristics of a scrap that had the spectre of relegation very much at the banquet.
- There is a misunderstanding about the meaning of the word soporific and when Thompson explains it to McDonald they both enjoy a laugh, at themselves mostly, they let go a little, and it is one of the most human and intimate moments in the film up until that point.