Meaning & use
Somniferous
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Causing or tending to induce sleep.
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The lecture's monotone delivery had a somniferous effect on the audience.
Doctors once prescribed somniferous herbs to treat insomnia.
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From Latin somnus, 'sleep,' and ferre, 'to bring'; it shares its root with 'somnolent' and 'insomnia.'
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soporificsleep-inducing
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