Definizione monolingua

soporific

soporific (plural soporifics)

1. Something inducing sleep, especially a drug.

   The doctor prescribed a soporific to help him sleep.

2. (figuratively) Something boring or dull.

soporific (comparative more soporific, superlative most soporific)

1. Tending to induce sleep.

   The professor delivered a soporific lecture.

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Book V, chapter i

     For we are not here to understand, as perhaps some have, that an author actually falls asleep while he is writing. It is true, that readers are too apt to be so overtaken; […] To say the truth, these soporific parts are so many scenes of serious artfully interwoven, in order to contrast and set off the rest;

2. (figuratively) boring, dull

Definizione dizionario soporific

	sonnifero
	sleep inducing agent

	soporifero
	tending to induce sleep

Altri significati:

Tending to induce sleep.

Something inducing sleep, especially a drug

Something inducing sleep, especially a drug.