Enervate vs Soporific - What's the difference?

enervate | soporific |

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

English

Verb

(enervat)

(lb) To reduce strength or energy; debilitate.

(lb) To weaken morally or mentally.

(lb) To partially or completely remove a nerve.

Synonyms

* (reduce strength) debilitate, weaken

Antonyms

* (reduce strength) strengthen, revive * bolster

Adjective

(en adjective)

Made feeble; weakened.

Anagrams

* ----

soporific

English

Alternative forms

* soporifick (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)

Something inducing sleep, especially a drug.

The doctor prescribed a soporific to help the patient sleep.

(figuratively) Something boring or dull.

Synonyms

* See also

Adjective

(en adjective)

Tending to induce sleep.

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;

* 1909 , (Beatrix Potter), (The Tale of The Flopsy Bunnies) , [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14220/14220-h/14220-h.htm]:

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!

(lb) boring, dull

Synonyms

* See also