Enervate vs Soporific - What's the difference?
enervate | soporific |
(lb) To reduce strength or energy; debilitate.
(lb) To weaken morally or mentally.
(lb) To partially or completely remove a nerve.
Something inducing sleep, especially a drug.
(figuratively) Something boring or dull.
Tending to induce sleep.
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* 1909 , (Beatrix Potter), (The Tale of The Flopsy Bunnies) , [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14220/14220-h/14220-h.htm]:
(lb) boring, dull
As adjectives the difference between enervate and soporific
is that enervate is made feeble; weakened while soporific is tending to induce sleep.As a verb enervate
is (lb) to reduce strength or energy; debilitate.As a noun soporific is
something inducing sleep, especially a drug.enervate
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Verb
(enervat)Synonyms
* (reduce strength) debilitate, weakenAntonyms
* (reduce strength) strengthen, revive * bolsterAnagrams
* ----soporific
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Alternative forms
* soporifick (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- The doctor prescribed a soporific to help the patient sleep.
Synonyms
* See alsoAdjective
(en adjective)- The professor delivered a soporific lecture.
- 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;
- It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is “soporific'.” ''I'' have never felt sleepy after eating lettuces; but then ''I'' am not a rabbit. They certainly had a very ' soporific effect upon the Flopsy Bunnies!
