Soporific vs Opiate - What's the difference?
soporific | opiate | Synonyms |
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
Relating to, resembling, or containing opium.
Soporific; inducing sleep or sedation.
Deadening; causing apathy or dullness.
A drug, hormone or other substance derived from or related to opium.
Something that dulls the senses and induces a false and unrealistic sense of contentment.
* Bentley
To treat with an opiate drug.
Soporific is a synonym of opiate.
As nouns the difference between soporific and opiate
is that soporific is something inducing sleep, especially a drug while opiate is "opiates".As an adjective soporific
is tending to induce sleep.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!
Synonyms
* See alsoopiate
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Adjective
(-)Noun
(wikipedia opiate) (en noun)- They chose atheism as an opiate .