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soporific
adjective

- causing sleep or making a person want to sleep

Cambridge Dictionary

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ORIGIN

From the 1680s meaning “tending to produce sleep” from the French soporifique from Latin sopor meaning “deep sleep”.

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SYNONYMS

somnolent, hypnotic, sleep-inducing, sleepy, somniferous, drowsy, narcotic, opiate, sedative, tranquillizing, boring, monotonous, calmative, slumberous, slumbrous, anaesthetic, balmy, calming, deadening, dozy, mesmerising, nodding off, numbing, quietening, snoozy, soothing, deadly dull, somnifacient, stupefacient, slumbersome, slumber, stupefactive, lulling, dream, yawning, torpid, sluggish, draggy, sleepyhead, lethargic, dopey, out of it, pacifying, anodyne, listless, blah, comatose, soporiferous, analgesic, dulling, stupefying, hypnagogic, somnific, somnorific, trance-inducing

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FEELING SLEEPY?

Have you noticed how words can affect our feelings and moods? Just reading the synonyms above makes me feel drowsy. If you're just going to bed, that’s fine, but if not, here are some ANTONYMS to wake you up:

dazzling, stimulating, refreshing, bracing, exhilarating, rousing, restorative, electric, electrifying, energising, exciting, reviving, rejuvenating, enlivening, animating, galvanising, uplifting, sparkling, fortifying, quickening, strengthening, rallying, health-giving, stirring, thrilling, inspiring, arousing, spine-tingling, breathtaking, hair-raising, adrenalizing, gripping, titillating, provocative, challenging, appealing, thought-provoking, inspiriting, revivifying, pick-me-up, activating, inspirational, life-giving, motivating, livening, heady, refreshful, life-renewing, life-saving, spiriting, vigorous, heart-pumping, heart-stopping, freshening, resuscitative, reanimating, zesty, mind-bending, mind-blowing, mind-boggling, exalting, vitalizing, rip-roaring, eye-popping

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SMUGGLE OWAD into a conversation today, say something like:

“Hey, that telco was so SOPORIFIC, I now really need a strong coffee!”

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Paul Smith