Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Tending to produce sleep; hypnotic.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Somnific; soporific; tending to produce sleep.
- n. That which causes or induces sleep; a soporific.
Wiktionary
- adj. inducing or causing sleep
- n. any pharmaceutical product that causes sleep
Etymologies
- From Latin somnus (sleep) + facio (I make) (Wiktionary)
Examples
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘somnifacient’.
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phrontistery-s
from phrontistery.info
sabaton, sabbatarian, sabbulonarium, sabelline, sabin, sable, sabliere, sabot, sabretache, sabulous, saburration, saccade and 1593 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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azd's Words
adamantine, abatial, ablate, ablative, abrogate, accretive, acromegaly, acrostic, actinism, actinic, acuity, adduce and 968 more...
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ADW1
obdurate, obstinate, behest, injunction, enjoin, circumspect, ensconce, discursive, lugubrious, doleful, somber, ken and 2476 more...
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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Emotions & Feelings
felicific, felicity, beatific, sanguine, anodyne, doleful, zeal, alacrity, alacritous, tumult, noxious, indurate and 74 more...
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Dream a little dream of me
Title a bit cliché? Good song, in any case.
hypnopompic, hypnogogic, lucid dreaming, oneironaut, somnambulism, rem, oneiromancy, dream, nightmare, dream incbuation, recurring dream, insomnia and 7 more...
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sleep
slumber, sloom, sommeil
go to bed, go to sleep, take a nap
shuteye, forty winks - informal (n)
in the arms of Morpheus, asleep - (adj)
go off to the land of nod, doze off, n...slumber, in the arms of mo..., nap, catnap, doze, somnambulist, noctambulist, noctambulo, hypnobate, sleepwalker, beauty sleep, doze off and 27 more...
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Sleepy/Dreamy
noctuary, oneirocriticism, revery, somnambulate, somnial, somniate, somnifacient, somniloquence, somnipathy, somnolescent, somnolence, somnorific and 7 more...
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