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Mr. Tom Posted 17 years ago
Vocabulary

The word "soporific"

Hi

Is "soporific" fairly common in everyday English? Any synonym/substitute for it?

Thanks,

Tom
  

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Mr. Tom Hi Is " soporific " fairly common in everyday English? Any synonym/substitute for it?

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  • Mr.
  • Tom Hi Is " soporific " fairly common in everyday English?
  • Any synonym/substitute for it?
  • Thanks, Tom Sleep inducer; sleeping pill, sleeping medication.
  • As for its use, any doctor, pharmacist or person needing a soporific knows the term, as well as many other educated people.
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Mr. TomHi

Is "soporific" fairly common in everyday English? Any synonym/substitute for it?

Thanks,

Tom

Sleep inducer; sleeping pill, sleeping medication.

As for its use, any doctor, pharmacist or person needing a soporific knows the term, as well as many other educated people.

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Hi Tom:
My favorite resource for answering this kind of question is http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definition/soporific

It gives the word frequency by part of speech; synonyms, translations, etc.

All the best,
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Hi,

The word that came first to my mind was 'boring', although interestingly I didn't notice this in the Webster link.

eg I thought that TV program was really soporific.

In answer to the question about whether 'soporific' is in common use, I'd say it's not remarkable but at the same time it's not a word you hear every day.

It's one of those words
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CliveHi,

The word that came first to my mind was 'boring',

I've come across the word in a number of movie and book reviews.
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