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soporific

\sop-uh-RIF-ik; soh-puh-\ , adjective;
1.Causing sleep; tending to cause sleep.
2.Of, relating to, or characterized by sleepiness or lethargy.
noun: 1.A medicine, drug, plant, or other agent that has the quality of inducing sleep; a narcotic.
形容词 a.
1.催眠的
2.想睡的
名词 n.
1.催眠剂

Quotes:
Hamilton's voice droned on, hypnotic, soporific, the gloom beyond the windows like the backdrop of a waking dream.
~T. Coraghessan Boyle, Riven Rock
They were almost an hour behind in their daily schedule, and both women looked tired after a soporific afternoon of three executive meetings.
~Gabriel Garcia Marquez, News of a Kidnapping
Happily, these three lullaby books offer the sort of comforting bedtime soporific that has delivered generations of children, young and older, into deep, safe slumber.
~Lisa Shea, New York Times, January 30, 1994

Origin:
Soporific is from French soporifique, from Latin sopor, "a heavy sleep" + -ficus, "-fic," from facere, "to make."