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Causing sleep; tending to cause sleep; soporiferous; as, the soporific virtues of opium.

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  1. a. Causing sleep; tending to cause sleep; soporiferous; as, the soporific virtues of opium.
  2. n. A medicine, drug, plant, or other agent that has the quality of inducing sleep; a narcotic.
  3. adj. sleep inducing
  4. adj. inducing mental lethargy
  5. n. a drug that induces sleep
  6. Causing sleep; tending to cause sleep; soporiferous; as, the soporific virtues of opium. Syn. -- Somniferous; narcotic; opiate; anodyne. A medicine, drug, plant, or other agent that has the quality of inducing sleep; a narcotic.
  7. Causing sleep; tending to cause sleep; soporiferous; as, thesoporific virtues of opium.
  8. j:100 n. a drug that induces sleep s. sleep inducing