Most people use music as a couch; they want to be pillowed on it, relaxed and consoled for the stress of daily living. But serious music was never meant to be soporific.
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Soporific
//ˌsɑp.əˈɹɪf.ɪk//
Synonyms for "soporific" (252 found)
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Adjective(19 words)
Adjective(3 words)
Noun(1 words)
Related words (126)
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Adjective(30 words)
Noun(1 words)
Adjective(3 words)
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81 translations across 31 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ὑπνωτικός adj (tending to induce sleep)
Arabic
2 entries- مُنَوِّم adj (tending to induce sleep)
- مُنَوِّم noun (sleep inducing agent)
Armenian
2 entries- քնաբեր adj (tending to induce sleep)
- քնաբեր noun (sleep inducing agent)
Bulgarian
3 entries- приспивателен adj (tending to induce sleep)
- сънотворен adj (tending to induce sleep)
- приспивателно noun (sleep inducing agent)
Catalan
4 entries- hipnòtic adj (tending to induce sleep)
- narcòtic adj (tending to induce sleep)
- somnífer adj (tending to induce sleep)
- soporífer adj (tending to induce sleep)
Chinese
1 entries- 愛睏藥仔 /爱困药仔 noun (sleep inducing agent)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 催眠的 adj (tending to induce sleep)
- 催眠劑 /催眠剂 noun (sleep inducing agent)
- 催眠藥 /催眠药 noun (sleep inducing agent)
- 安眠藥 /安眠药 noun (sleep inducing agent)
Czech
2 entries- uspávající adj (tending to induce sleep)
- uspávadlo noun (sleep inducing agent)
Danish
1 entries- sovemiddel noun (sleep inducing agent)
Dutch
4 entries- slaapverwekkend adj (tending to induce sleep)
- soporatief adj (tending to induce sleep)
- slaapmiddel noun (sleep inducing agent)
- soporatief noun (sleep inducing agent)
Esperanto
1 entries- dormigilo noun (sleep inducing agent)
Finnish
2 entries- unettava adj (tending to induce sleep)
- unilääke noun (sleep inducing agent)
French
2 entries- soporifique adj (tending to induce sleep)
- somnifère noun (sleep inducing agent)
Georgian
4 entries- დამაძინებელი adj (tending to induce sleep)
- ძილის მომგვრელი adj (tending to induce sleep)
- საძილე ნივთიერება noun (sleep inducing agent)
- საძილე პრეპარატი noun (sleep inducing agent)
German
2 entries- einschläfernd adj (tending to induce sleep)
- Schlafmittel noun (sleep inducing agent)
Greek
2 entries- υπνωτικός adj (tending to induce sleep)
- υπνωτικό noun (sleep inducing agent)
Greenlandic
1 entries- sininnartoq noun (sleep inducing agent)
Interlingua
2 entries- soporific adj (tending to induce sleep)
- soporifico noun (sleep inducing agent)
Italian
4 entries- addormentativo adj (tending to induce sleep)
- addormentatore adj (tending to induce sleep)
- soporifero adj (tending to induce sleep)
- sonnifero noun (sleep inducing agent)
Korean
2 entries- 잠이 오게 하는 adj (tending to induce sleep)
- 수면제 noun (sleep inducing agent)
Latin
3 entries- somnifer adj (tending to induce sleep)
- somnificus adj (tending to induce sleep)
- sopor noun (sleep inducing agent)
Māori
3 entries- rongoā whakamoe adj (tending to induce sleep)
- mea whakamoe noun (sleep inducing agent)
- rongoā whakamoe noun (sleep inducing agent)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- xewîner adj (tending to induce sleep)
Persian
1 entries- خوابآور adj (tending to induce sleep)
Polish
1 entries- środek nasenny noun (sleep inducing agent)
Portuguese
4 entries- soporífero adj (tending to induce sleep)
- soporífico adj (tending to induce sleep)
- soporífero noun (sleep inducing agent)
- soporífico noun (sleep inducing agent)
Russian
4 entries- вводящий в сон adj (tending to induce sleep)
- навевающий сон adj (tending to induce sleep)
- снотво́рный adj (tending to induce sleep)
- убаю́кивающий adj (tending to induce sleep)
Spanish
4 entries- somnífero adj (tending to induce sleep)
- soporífico adj (tending to induce sleep)
- somnífero noun (sleep inducing agent)
- soporífero noun (sleep inducing agent)
Swedish
2 entries- sövande adj (tending to induce sleep)
- sömnmedel noun (sleep inducing agent)
Ukrainian
1 entries- сноді́йне noun (sleep inducing agent)
Vietnamese
1 entries- thuốc ngủ noun (sleep inducing agent)
Sample sentences
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The book I bought yesterday is a real soporific.
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A soporific drone sounds all around.
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The doctor prescribed a soporific to help the patient sleep.
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