a somniferous enumeration of details that I could have done without
Recent Examples on the WebEveryone was back in the Dolby Theatre, a welcome return after last year’s somniferous experiment from Steven Soderbergh, which was held in Los Angeles’s Union Station.—Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2022
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Word History
Etymology
Latin somnifer somniferous, from somnus + -fer -ferous
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