Soporific

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Soporific \Sop`o*rif"ic\, n.
     A medicine, drug, plant, or other agent that has the quality
     of inducing sleep; a narcotic.
     [1913 Webster] Soporose

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Soporific \Sop`o*rif"ic\ (?; 277), a. [L. sopor a heavy sleep
     (akin to somnus sleep) + facere to make. See {Somnolent},
     {Fact}.]
     Causing sleep; tending to cause sleep; soporiferous; as, the
     soporific virtues of opium.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     Syn: Somniferous; narcotic; opiate; anodyne.
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  soporific
       adj 1: sleep inducing [syn: {soporiferous}, {somniferous}, {somnific},
               {hypnogogic}, {hypnagogic}]
       2: inducing mental lethargy; "a narcotic speech" [syn: {narcotic},
           {soporiferous}]
       n : a drug that induces sleep [syn: {hypnotic}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  179 Moby Thesaurus words for "soporific":
     Amytal, Amytal pill, Demerol, Dolophine, H, Laodicean, Luminal,
     Luminal pill, M, Mickey Finn, Nembutal, Nembutal pill, Olympian,
     Seconal, Seconal pill, Tuinal, Tuinal pill, alcohol, aloof,
     amobarbital sodium, analgesic, anesthetic, anesthetized, anodyne,
     apathetic, barb, barbiturate, barbiturate pill, benumbed,
     black stuff, blah, blase, blue, blue angel, blue devil,
     blue heaven, blue velvet, calmant, calmative, calming, cataleptic,
     chloral hydrate, codeine, codeine cough syrup, comatose, deadening,
     depressant, depressor, desensitized, detached, disinterested,
     dolly, doped, downer, dozy, dreamy, drowsy, drugged,
     drugged with sleep, dull, goofball, half asleep, hard stuff,
     heartless, heavy, heavy with sleep, heavy-eyed, hebetudinous,
     heroin, hop, hopeless, horse, hypnotic, in a stupor, indifferent,
     insouciant, junk, knockout drops, languid, laudanum, lethargic,
     liquor, listless, lotus, lullaby, mandrake, meperidine, methadone,
     morphia, morphine, napping, narcoleptic, narcose, narcotic,
     narcotized, narcous, nightcap, nodding, nonchalant, numb, numbed,
     numbing, opiate, opium, oscitant, out of it, pacifier, pain killer,
     paregoric, passive, pen yan, phenobarbital, phenobarbital sodium,
     phlegmatic, pluckless, poppy, purple heart, quietener, quietening,
     rainbow, red, resigned, scag, secobarbital sodium, sedated,
     sedative, shit, slack, sleep-bringer, sleep-causing,
     sleep-compelling, sleep-drowned, sleep-drunk, sleep-filled,
     sleep-inducer, sleep-inducing, sleep-inviting, sleep-producer,
     sleep-provoking, sleep-swollen, sleeper, sleepful,
     sleeping draught, sleeping pill, sleepy, sluggish, slumberous,
     slumbery, smack, snoozy, sodium thiopental, somnifacient,
     somniferous, somnolent, soother, soothing, soothing syrup,
     spiritless, spunkless, stoic, stretchy, stupefied, stuporose,
     stuporous, supine, tar, torpid, tranquilizer, tranquilizing, turps,
     uncaring, unconcerned, uninterested, white stuff, withdrawn,
     yawning, yawny, yellow, yellow jacket