as in soothing
tending to cause sleep
her eyes soon grew heavy from the hypnotic rhythm of the train's wheels
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as in sedative
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Recent Examples of hypnotic
Randy Myers, Mercury News, 28 May 2026
There is no sign outside, but follow the noise inside to find the Host arrive on stage from a door hidden behind a hypnotic dayglow projector visual.
—Christopher Buchanan, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2026
Jen Christensen, CNN, 1 Mar. 2024
Unlike telepaths, who can read minds, hypnotics have the power to control them, reshaping a person’s reality and redirecting their impulses.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 May 2023
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Adjective
Bay Area content creator Kane Parsons pushes back on conventional storytelling, and his hypnotic approach results in one of 2026’s most exhilarating debuts, a existential head trip that GoPros us into a human subconscious besieged by misshapen memories that trap and hold you hostage.
—Randy Myers, Mercury News, 28 May 2026
There is no sign outside, but follow the noise inside to find the Host arrive on stage from a door hidden behind a hypnotic dayglow projector visual.
—Christopher Buchanan, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2026
Noun
However, there was no increase in the number of prescriptions for anti-psychotics or hypnotics.
—Jen Christensen, CNN, 1 Mar. 2024
Unlike telepaths, who can read minds, hypnotics have the power to control them, reshaping a person’s reality and redirecting their impulses.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 May 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hypnotic
Adjective
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The set comes in over 10 colors, including a summer-ready coral and soothing sage green.—
Better Homes & Gardens,
Better Homes & Gardens,
13 June 2026
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There’s a cosmic irony in referencing Yoshimura, whose soothing compositions were famously commissioned to accompany showrooms for model homes in Japan in the 1980s and have since become synonymous with domestic comfort.—
Harry Thorfinn-George,
Pitchfork,
11 June 2026
Noun
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The woman did a Google image search and concluded that the drug was stronger — Ambien, a prescription sedative, reads the complaint.—
Madeleine Marr,
Miami Herald,
9 June 2026
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The attorneys also said prosecutors did not prove the sedative is what killed him.—
Mead Gruver,
Los Angeles Times,
4 June 2026
Adjective
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There’s a hypnotizing 360-shot that starts with Galina and Anton day-drinking and then getting into bed, with composers Evgueni and Sacha Galperine’s worrying score pressing upon them, only to come back to the pair in an unchanged, postcoital position.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
19 May 2026
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Manuel then slipped into a stark white dress overflowing with ruffles and shrugged on a matching lace shawl with long fringing over it—all key elements to bringing his hypnotizing moves to life.—
Condé Nast Traveler,
Condé Nast Traveler,
25 Feb. 2026
Noun
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There are sedatives such as xylazine, street-named Tranq, an animal tranquilizer that can cause fleshrotting skin lesions and is frequently mixed with fentanyl.—
The Week US,
TheWeek,
18 May 2026
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The bear was sedated with a tranquilizer.—
Julie Sharp,
CBS News,
4 May 2026
Adjective
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The suspect, identified as 32-year-old Keith Johnson, was arrested and booked on suspicion of felony vandalism, felony burglary, possession of narcotic paraphernalia, possession of another person's identifying information and probation violation.—
Tim Fang,
CBS News,
28 Apr. 2026
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Billy [William Friedkin, the director] out on narcotic raids.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Despite the vicious—and mostly ineffective—GOP attacks on Biden’s mental acuity, the former vice president gave listeners a level of detail Thursday night that bordered on the soporific.—
Walter Shapiro,
The New Republic,
15 Oct. 2020
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The filmmakers hit the reset button again, to find new conflict-laden places to go, new soporific curses to do.—
BostonGlobe.com,
BostonGlobe.com,
17 Oct. 2019
Adjective
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Later, the woman’s daughter was born with opiate dependence and had to stay in the hospital for several months after birth.—
Adeline Goss,
New Yorker,
11 June 2026
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Hydrocodone is an opiate used in drugs like Vicodin.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
31 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Participants who showed the signal woke up less drowsy than those without it.—
Yasemin Saplakoglu,
Quanta Magazine,
17 Oct. 2025
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By contrast, drowsy formulas containing diphenhydramine don’t interact with caffeine in this way.—
Khloe Quill,
FOXNews.com,
5 Oct. 2025
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“Hypnotic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hypnotic. Accessed 18 Jun. 2026.
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