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soporific
What does soporific mean?
soporific (adjective): sleep inducing.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you use soporific in a sentence?
- The professor delivered a soporific lecture. (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where does soporific come from?
Borrowed from French soporifique, from Latin sopor (“deep sleep”) + -ificus.
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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