Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Causing sleep: tending to induce sleep; somniferous; soporific.
Wiktionary
- adj. Causing sleep; somniferous.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Causing sleep; somniferous.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. sleep inducing
Etymologies
- Latin somnificus; somnus sleep + facere to make. (Wiktionary)
Examples
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘somnific’.
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Bedaphors
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My List
A list of words that I have generated over time.
cairn, cacodaemoniacal, abash, abject, abjure, abstemious, abhor, abnegate, abnegation, abscond, abstruse, acclivity and 702 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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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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