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soporific

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Designers will pixel push, frontend engineers will add clicks to make it more difficult to drop out of a soporific Zoom call, but few companies are ever willing to rip out their database storage engine.

“Gently rolling hills” roll not-so-gently under my tires, but the English countryside scenery is soporific.

A travelogue of the drug-testing labs at Pfizer, Eli Lilly, or GlaxoSmithKline would likely be soporific.

Yet Diana, with its soporific romance and awful dialogue, is a colossal bore.

Unlike other soporific cabinet secretaries, Homeland Security director is a position people really do care about.

The premise is this: turkey is chock-full of a soporific essential amino acid, tryptophan, one of the 22 essential amino acids.

To whom the prophetess, seeing his neck now bristle with horrid snakes, flings a soporific cake of honey and medicated grain.

There is nothing oratorical in his style of delivery; it is calm, slow, and has a rather soporific influence upon his hearers.

From which it appears evident that the actual words used as a soporific allow considerable latitude of choice.

I sit dreaming, the rhythmical song and the splashing of the oars exercising a soporific effect.

The odor of a smouldering bough of balsam-fir hung in the air—warm, spicy, soporific.

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On this page you'll find 53 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to soporific, such as: anesthetic/anaesthetic, calming, deadening, hypnotic, narcotic, and opiate.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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