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Somniferous   Listen
adjective
Somniferous  adj.  Causing or inducing sleep; soporific; dormitive; as, a somniferous potion.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Somniferous" Quotes from Famous Books



... entered upon his authority, than he turned out of office all the meddlesome spirits of the factious cabinet of William the Testy; in place of whom he chose unto himself councillors from those fat, somniferous, respectable burghers who had flourished and slumbered under the easy reign of Walter the Doubter. All these he caused to be furnished with abundance of fair long pipes, and to be regaled with frequent corporation ...
— Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete • Washington Irving



Words linked to "Somniferous" :   somnific, soporific, hypnagogic, soporiferous, hypnogogic, depressant



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