💧 Causing sweating 💧 A sweat medicine

sudorific

1 9.9

That makes you sweat

adjective
/ˌsuːdəˈrɪfɪk/

Specialized

: sudorífico

This drink is sudorific.

Examples

The doctor prescribed a sudorific remedy to reduce his fever.
That sudorific tea worked wonders!
Applying a sudorific ointment made her sweat profusely.
Ginger tea is considered a natural sudorific in herbal medicine.
The sudorific effects of the sauna help people relax and detoxify.
After taking the sudorific medicine, she started to sweat profusely.
Athletes often use sudorific substances to enhance their performance through increased sweating.

Synonyms

diaphoretic

vssudorific

Specialized

2 9.9

Causing a person to sweat, often to help reduce a fever

has identical meaning but is an alternative term used for the same effect

Surface Forms

sudorific positive

Morphology

sudorific = sudor + ific

Built from the Latin combining form 'sudor' + suffix '-ific'; neither element is transparent to most learners, so the causative meaning 'causing sweat' is not derivable by knowing common English morphemes.

Etymology

Sudorific comes from the Latin sudor 'sweat' and the ending -ific 'making', so the adjective describes something that causes or promotes sweating.