as in hypnotic
tending to cause sleep
this medication is soporific, so do not drive after taking it
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Recent Examples of soporific
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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for soporific
Adjective
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But as the microbes spread across the screen, the visual becomes almost hypnotic—and, as Peck recently told me, akin to how dictators overwhelm people’s abilities to determine fact from fiction.—
Shirley Li,
The Atlantic,
21 Oct. 2025
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Its Mudéjar architecture, a hypnotic blend of Islamic artistry and Christian tradition, never fails to captivate travelers.—
Nigel Hack,
Travel + Leisure,
18 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Texas began solely using pentobarbital, a sedative, for executions in 2012.—
Erik Ortiz,
NBC news,
14 Oct. 2025
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Popular since the Soviet days, Validol, a mild sedative sold over the counter, flies off the shelves in tens of millions each year.—
Nina Khrushcheva,
Time,
3 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Spike takes one of Kelson's tranquilizer darts filled with morphine and stabs Samson in the arm with it.—
Christopher Rudolph,
PEOPLE,
23 Sep. 2025
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Jacintha, a horseback rider, was familiar with ketamine as a horse tranquilizer but had never heard of it as a last-stop mental health treatment for treatment-resistant patients like Lucy, who was diagnosed with depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder.—
Rachel Hale,
USA Today,
10 Sep. 2025
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“Soporific.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/soporific. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.
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