Soporific

Definition: Soporific

Soporific

Adjective

1. Sleep inducing.

2. Inducing mental lethargy; "a narcotic speech".

Noun

1. A drug that induces sleep.

Date "soporific" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1613. (references)

Domain	Definition
Botanical	A substance producing sleep. Achras, Allium, Capparis, Erythrina, Gliricidia, Lucuma, Passiflora, Phytolacca, Piscidia, Turnera. (references)
Health	1. causing or inducing profound sleep. 2. a drug or other agent which induces sleep. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Soporific

Synonyms: hypnagogic (adj), hypnogogic (adj), narcotic (adj), somniferous (adj), somnific (adj), soporiferous (adj), hypnotic (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Inactivity	Sleepy, sleepful; dozy, drowsy, somnolent, torpescent, lethargic, lethargical; somnifacient; statuvolent, statuvolic; heavy, heavy with sleep; napping; somnific, somniferous; soporous, soporific, soporiferous; hypnotic; balmy, dreamy; unawakened, unawakened.
Weariness	Adjective: wearying; Verb: wearing; wearisome, tiresome, irksome; uninteresting, stupid, bald, devoid of interest, dry, monotonous, dull, arid, tedious, humdrum, mortal, flat; prosy, prosing; slow, soporific, somniferous.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Soporific

English words defined with "soporific": barbiturate ♦ Dormitive ♦ narcoleptic ♦ sleeping capsule, sleeping draught, sleeping pill, sleeping tablet. (references)

Specialty definitions using "soporific": Tares. (references)

Etymologies containing "soporific": somnolent. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Soporific" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Romanian (drowsy, hypnotic, narcotic, sleep-inducing, soporiferous, soporific).

Author	Quotation
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche	There is no better soporific and sedative than skepticism.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Soporific" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 97.44% of the time. "Soporific" is used about 39 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	97.44%	38	55,818
Noun (proper)	2.56%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	39	N/A

Expression using "soporific": give a soporific. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "soporific"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		narkotik (dope, drug, junk, narcotic, opiate), i përgjumur (asleep, dopey, dopy, dormant, dozy, drowsy, lethargic, sleepy, slumberous, somnolent), bar gjumi (drug, sleeping draught). (various references)

Arabic		‏منوم (hypnotic, sleepy, somnifacient, somniferous), ‏مخدر (anaesthetic, anaesthetized, anesthetic, anesthetized, benumbed, dope, doped, drug, drugged, narcosis, narcotic, narcotized, opiate, pain killer, somnolent, stupefied, stupid, torpid), ‏نعسان (drowsy, heavy, sleepy, somnolent), ‏عقار (drug, real estate, realty). (various references)

Bulgarian		сънотворно средство, сънотворен (opiate). (various references)

Czech		uspávající, ospalý (dopey, dozy, drowsy, languorous, nappy, sleepy, slumberous, somnolent). (various references)

Danish		sovemiddel (hypnotic), soporifer (sleep-inducing), søvndyssende/sovemedicin (sleep-inducing), TU (afterload, filmcoated, first barrier, firstpass, hypouricaemia, irregular heartbeat, lack of uric acid in the blood, lipophilic, liquifilm, locoregional, morphinomimetic, oncotic, simulating effects of morphine, subcapsular, swelling related, syphilitis-related, thin liquid layer of coating, torsade de pointes, trivalent, vagolytic, with a valence of three, with an affinity for fat). (various references)

Dutch		soporificum, soporatief, soporeus, slaapverwekkend (sleep-inducing), slaapmiddel (hypnotic). (various references)

Farsi		کرخت (Insensitive, Numb), خواب الود (Dreamy, Drowsy, Heavy, Sleepy, Somnolent), داروی خواب اور. (various references)

Finnish		unettava (sleep-inducing). (various references)

French		soporifique. (various references)

German		schlafmittel (barbiturate, sleeping drug, sleeping pill, sleeping pills, soporifics), einschläfernd (lulling to sleep, monotonous, slumberous, slumbrous, somniferous, somnolent, soporifically). (various references)

Greek		ναρκωτικόσ (drug, narcotic, opiate, torporific), υπνωτικόσ (hypnotic), υπνωτικός (hypnagogic, hypnotic, sleep-inducing), υπνωτικό (sleeping pill, soporiferous), υπνοφόροσ (somniferous, soporiferous), ληθαργικός (sleep-inducing). (various references)

Hungarian		altatószer (dope, hypnotic, narcotic, opiate, sleeping draught, sleeping-draught, sleeping-pill), altató (drowsy, narcotic, sedative, sleeping pill, sleeping-draught, sleeping-pill, slumberous, slumbery). (various references)

Indonesian		kelenaan (somnolent). (various references)

Italian		soporifero (opiate). (various references)

Korean		최면성. (various references)

Manx		stoo cadlee. (various references)

Pig Latin		oporificsay

Portuguese		soporativo, soporífico (opiate, sleeping draught, sleepy, somnifacient, somniferous), soporífero (drug, narcotic, poppied, somnifacient, somniferous), soporífico, que causa sono, enfadonho (arid, barren, boring, bothersome, difficult, disagreeable, drab, dull, fastidious, humdrum, insipid, lengthy, monotone, monotonous, muzzy, pesky, preachy, prolix, prosy, repetitious, stodgy, tedious, tiresome, untoward, vapid, vexing, wearisome, weary), aborrecido (annoyed, beastly, boring, bothersome, damnable, disgusted, drab, dreary, dull, dullish, grouchy, horrid, irksome, jaded, meddler, morose, mumpish, outworn, pernickety, pesky, prose, provoking, stodgy, sulky, tedious, tired, tiresome, tiring, troublesome, unpleasant, vexed, vexing, wearisome, weary, worn-out, worried, worrisome). (various references)

Romanian		soporific (drowsy, hypnotic, narcotic, sleep-inducing, soporiferous), somnifer (hypnotic, opiate, sleeping-drag, somniferous, somnific), adormitor (drowsy, sleep-compelling, sleeping, somnific, soothing). (various references)

Russian		снотворный (hypnosis, hypnotic, opiate, poppied, sleepy, somnifacient, somniferous, somnolent). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		uspavljujući (narcotic), uspavljujuće sredstvo (hypnotic, narcotic), previše samopouzdan, nezreo (callow, immature, unripe, unseasoned, verdant). (various references)

Spanish		soporífero (narcotic, sleepy). (various references)

Swedish		sövande (drowsy, slumberous). (various references)

Thai		ซึ่งชวนให้ง่วง. (various references)

Turkish		uyutucu ilaç (opiate), uyutucu (drowsy, somniferous). (various references)

Ukrainian		сонний (heavy-handed, morphemic, poppied, sleepy, slumbery, somniferous, somnolent, yawny), снотворне (bromide, narcotic), снотворний (drowsy, hypnotic, narcotic, opiate, sleepy, somnifacient, somniferous, stupefacient), наркотичний (hypnotic, narcotic, opiate), наркотик (dope, drug, number, opiate). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
French	1500-Modern	hypnotique. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "soporific": soporifics. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Soporific" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: separovic, sophorific, soporfic, soporofic, soporrific, soprific, sporific, suporific. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-f-i-i-o-o-p-r-s"
	-3 letters: pooris, proofs, scroop.
	-4 letters: coifs, coirs, coofs, coops, corps, crisp, crops, pisco, poofs, poori, profs, proof, proso, roofs, scoop, scrip, sopor, spoof, spoor.
	-5 letters: coif, coir, coof, coop, coos, cops, corf, cors, cris, crop, fico, firs, fisc, foci, fops, iris, oops, orcs, pics, piso, poco, pois, poof, poor, prof, pros, rifs, rips, rocs.
	Words containing the letters "c-f-i-i-o-o-p-r-s"
	+1 letter: soporifics.
	+4 letters: pontificators.
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