soporific
- noun
- /ˌsɒpəˈrɪfɪk/
- Specialized
:
soporífico
- Many people use a mild soporific like valerian root to relax before bedtime.
Examples
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His speech was slow, and yet even that powerful soporific couldn't suppress the excitement in his voice.
Fiction book (1992) -
The doctor recommended a soporific to help me sleep after my long flight.
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After a tiring day, I took a soporific to ensure a good night's sleep.
Synonyms
1
8.2
A liquid medicine that makes you sleep
1
7.1
A medicine that makes you sleep or helps you stay asleep
A medicine or plant that makes you feel sleepy
A drug that makes a person very sleepy and fall asleep
A medicine that reduces anxiety and helps a person sleep
A medicine that calms the brain, reduces worry, and makes you sleep
Antonyms
Compounds
How Sleep-Inducing
Surface Forms
Morphology
soporific = sopor + ific
The combining form 'sopor' is not a productive or recognizable English base for most learners and the suffix '-ific' is not transparently understood, so the meaning 'sleep-inducing' cannot be reliably derived by a B1 learner.
Etymology
Soporific (noun) comes from the Latin sopor 'deep sleep' and the ending -fic 'making', so a soporific is literally something that 'makes sleep', like a drug a doctor might give to help you rest.