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   soporific

   /sɒpəˈrɪfɪk/

   adjective

   • 1. tending to induce drowsiness or sleep: "the motion of the train had a somewhat soporific effect"
   • ▪ sleepy or drowsy: "some medicine made her soporific"
   • ▪ tediously boring or monotonous: "a libel trial is in large parts intensely soporific"

   noun

   • 1. a drug or other substance that induces drowsiness or sleep.

   Word Origin mid 17th century: from Latin sopor ‘sleep’ + -fic.

   Derivatives

   • 1. soporifically adverb

   Scrabble Points: 16

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