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Noun
For the Grand Prix on Sunday, as the cars have become wider, longer and heavier, the racing is soporific, with virtually no overtaking. Ian Parkes, New York Times, 22 May 2025 Traveling to Hydra is normally a relaxing, almost soporific affair. Tony Perrottet, Travel + Leisure, 13 May 2025 Rather than aiming for the unique, which might pierce our haze of distraction, art has succumbed to marketable generalities: stock music on Spotify, soporific streams of Netflix content. Namwali Serpell, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2025 While Anton Chekhov always thought of The Seagull as a comedy, that fact has frequently been forgotten through productions that fall into the soporific trap set by angsty, moping, lovelorn characters losing their hearts and minds in the Russian countryside. Demetrios Matheou, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for soporific
Recent Examples of Synonyms for soporific
Adjective
  • Their hypnotic live sessions and cultural performances have even earned them their own residency at the popular nightclub venue Hï Ibiza in the Balearic Islands.
    Tere Aguilera, Billboard, 27 Aug. 2025
  • For someone who loves storytelling—fictions that are meant to pass as truth (or at least, emotionally truthful)—a film or TV set is a hypnotic, addictive place to be.
    Jane Ciabattari August 26, Literary Hub, 26 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Yet, unlike cortisol, oxytocin will have an effect on your body akin to that of a sedative.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Didn't go to the hospital just took Benadryl [antihistamine and sedative] for about two weeks.
    Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The program tests for various drugs, including cocaine, methamphetamine, fentanyl and other opioids, as well as xylazine, an animal tranquilizer that authorities have warned is increasingly being found mixed in with other drugs.
    Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Only when Teddy pins her down long enough to inject a tranquilizer is Michelle finally subdued.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 28 Aug. 2025

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“Soporific.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/soporific. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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