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say it: hip-NAH-tik
hypnotic is an adjective and noun meaning "of or relating to hypnosis". It carries 3 recorded senses.
of or relating to hypnosis
attracting and holding interest as if by a spell
“read the bedtime story in a hypnotic voice”
“she had a warm mesmeric charm”
“the sheer force of his presence was mesmerizing”
“a spellbinding description of life in ancient Rome”
a drug that induces sleep
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for hypnotic come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.