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• n  a drug that induces sleep
• s  sleep inducing
• s  inducing mental lethargy

• The head of the state's soporific address to the delegates was an anticlimax after the rallying speech of the Minister.
• How can there be passion in a science congress gathering, there can only be reading of soporific reading of abstruse papers.
• For the sixth graders the initial lectures during the event was soporific but the outing to the zoo was mind blowing.

• hypnotic
• soporiferous
• somniferous
• somnific
• hypnogogic
• hypnagogic
• narcotic

News & Articles

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• A mother's moving search for answers
  THEATER REVIEW: 'Fallow' at Steep Theatre Company ??½ THEATER REVIEW: 'Fallow' at Steep Theatre Company ??½ ... As titles for plays go, "Fallow" isn't the best choice, given its dangerously soporific implications.        
  July 20, 2013 - Chicago Tribune

Quotes

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• Ian Dickson in Rolling Stone
  Worst Great American Band: Bluegrass BBQ-ers Cliff Wagner And The Old #7 complained that Billy Joel isn't really suited to their style of music, and did a twangy cover of "You May Be Right" that Dicko called "soporific, sleepy, kind of dreary."