soporific

1. 1.

   a drug that induces sleep

   Synonymshypnotic

   Broaderdrughypnagogue

   Narrowernarcolepticsleeping pill

Other forms of soporific

plural

soporifics·

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.

Questions about soporific

What does soporific mean?

soporific means "sleep inducing". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in soporific?

soporific has 4 syllables: so-po-ri-fic. The stress falls on "ri".

What is another word for soporific?

Close synonyms include soporiferous, somniferous, somnific, hypnogogic, hypnagogic. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is soporific a common word?

soporific is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.