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Somniferous vs Soporiferous - What's the difference?

somniferous | soporiferous |

As adjectives the difference between somniferous and soporiferous

is that somniferous is causing or inducing sleep, normally with harmful overtones while soporiferous is (archaic) soporific, sleep-inducing.

somniferous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • causing or inducing sleep, normally with harmful overtones.

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    soporiferous

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (archaic) soporific, sleep-inducing
  • *{{quote-book, year=1908, author=Lafcadio Hearn, title=King Candaules, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=And she poured from a golden urn, into a cup of the same metal, the sombre-coloured beverage which she had mingled with the soporiferous juice of the nepenthe. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1910, author=Various, title=International Short Stories= French, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=At last the soporiferous fumes of the wine lulled him into a gentle repose. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=Charles Sylvester, title=Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=All this I was told; for, while the whole operation was performing, I lay in a profound sleep, by the force of that soporiferous medicine infused into my liquor. }}

    Derived terms

    * soporiferously * soporiferousness