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.

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