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单词 hypnotic
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Definition of hypnotic in English:

hypnotic

adjective hɪpˈnɒtɪkhɪpˈnɑdɪk
  • 1Relating to or producing hypnosis.

    a hypnotic state
    Example sentencesExamples
    • That means that the eye roll accounts for very little of the subject's hypnotic behavior.
    • Incidentally, this article was written through the use of several of the hypnotic techniques mentioned within it.
    • The deep relaxation of a hypnotic trance is also broadly beneficial as many illnesses are aggravated by anxiety and muscle tension.
    • Charcot demonstrated that such paralyses could be cured, and then artificially produced again, by hypnotic suggestion.
    • At times, we would simply drift along the coral wall and go into a dreamy hypnotic state in the calm of the deep blue sea.
    • The importance of using both high and low hypnotizable subjects in hypnotic pain research is emphasized.
    • More recently, Elkins described a brief hypnotic intervention for insomnia.
    • A small number of people who go into a very deep hypnotic state experience spontaneous amnesia.
    • His clinical and research interests include the treatment of anxiety disorders and hypnotic interventions.
    • She maintains that hypnotic subjects are asked basically to take on ‘what really amounts to a parody of epileptic symptoms.’
    • After receiving hypnotic psychotherapy, she remembered falling off a bicycle when riding down a slope about 10 years earlier.
    1. 1.1 Exerting a compelling or soporific effect.
      her voice had a hypnotic quality
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He understands the nature of composition, the juxtaposition of light and dark, and the hypnotic wonder of color and texture.
      • ‘Remember Me’ contains one of the greatest guitar riffs of all time and ‘Fear Of Drowning’ is wonderfully hypnotic.
      • Ehko couldn't help but stare, it was hypnotic, this strange beautiful creature just totally absorbed in licking a spoon.
      • This celebration conveys its own hypnotic delight, inviting us to suspend unanswerable questions about its ultimate purpose.
      • In human form she is a beautiful young woman with hypnotic amber eyes and pale hair.
      • His voice may not be as pure as it once was, nor soar quite so magnificently, but it is still wonderfully hypnotic.
      • The thing about that record is that it has some kind of hypnotic appeal.
      • Given the movie's form and content, Stardom is equally driven by the writer/director's fascination with television's hypnotic power.
      • We struggle to make sense of that, and despite our hypnotic attraction for all things royal, we turn the page.
      • Just got it last week, straight in from Japan and it's wonderful, hypnotic stuff.
      • The album is based around beautiful hypnotic drones, kind of avant-garde and kind of calming at the same time.
      • Her sisters had been praised and admired and stared at all their lives for their spellbinding, hypnotic electric-blue eyes.
      • As he spoke for those two hypnotic hours, he appealed not to my emotion, but to reason.
      • Guitar and bass driven repetitions have the hypnotic seduction of Stereolab at their best.
      • Her heady, hypnotic drumming intensifies both the mood and pace.
      • However, the majority of the film was smooth, multi-layered, and tight, like sublime lyrics over a hypnotic beat.
      • Gazing at a star-studded night sky is a truly beautiful and hypnotic experience.
      • This compilation sounds like nothing else and proves to be strangely hypnotic and fascinating.
      • What's bewitching, even hypnotic, about fly-fishing is the cast.
      • His eyes were a hypnotic green and beautifully set into a handsome, chiseled face.
      Synonyms
      mesmerizing, mesmeric, spellbinding, entrancing, bewitching, fascinating, irresistible, compelling
      soporific, sleep-inducing, sleep-producing, somnolent, somniferous, sedative, numbing
      Medicine stupefacient, stupefactive
      rare somnific
  • 2Medicine
    (of a drug) sleep-inducing.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Patients typically need large doses of sedative hypnotic drugs and four-point restraints during this stage.
    • Although used more often for its hypnotic properties, valerian is taken to relieve mild symptoms of anxiety.
    • The team decided to try a mild hypnotic drug on an as-needed basis to help the patient sleep better during restless nights.
    • This is especially true in elderly people and for hypnotic drugs.
    • All subjects were in good health and had no contraindications to hypnotic medications.
noun hɪpˈnɒtɪkhɪpˈnɑdɪk
  • 1Medicine
    A sleep-inducing drug.

    hypnotics may be prescribed
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Even in Thailand, with much available over the counter, hypnotics are not OTC and should only be taken as the last resort.
    • Running totals of hypnotics were not carried over from the previous month.
    • ‘Pediatricians recommend everything from benadryl to hypnotics to chamomile tea,’ she says.
    • Rates of use of antidepressants and hypnotics were similar for both groups.
    • It's been regarded more as a hypnotic and it also has strong muscle relaxing effects.
    Synonyms
    sedative, tranquillizer, calmative, sleeping pill, soporific, opiate, hypnotic
  • 2A person under or open to hypnosis.

Derivatives

  • hypnotically

  • adverbhɪpˈnɒtɪklihɪpˈnɑdək(ə)li
    • The patient, referred by hospice for psychological care, was treated with hypnotically facilitated psychotherapy.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The Eastern-sounding middle movement makes use of a pretty and hypnotically insistent pattern.
      • But while it's consistently interesting and hypnotically watchable, its manipulative techniques should remind us what sort of thing a movie is.
      • The patient was screened hypnotically by using a modified version of the Hypnotic Induction Profile.
      • It is hypnotically disturbing to watch a pair of 10-year-old twins take turns speaking their mother's exasperated love for them.

Origin

Early 17th century: from French hypnotique, via late Latin from Greek hupnōtikos 'causing sleep', from hupnoun 'put to sleep', from hupnos 'sleep'.

  • This goes back to Greek hupnōtikos ‘narcotic, causing sleep’, from hupnoun ‘put to sleep’.

Rhymes

abiotic, amniotic, antibiotic, chaotic, demotic, despotic, erotic, exotic, homoerotic, idiotic, macrobiotic, meiotic, narcotic, neurotic, osmotic, patriotic, prebiotic, psychotic, quixotic, robotic, sclerotic, semiotic, symbiotic, zygotic, zymotic
 
 

Definition of hypnotic in US English:

hypnotic

adjectivehipˈnädikhɪpˈnɑdɪk
  • 1Of, producing, or relating to hypnosis.

    a hypnotic state
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The deep relaxation of a hypnotic trance is also broadly beneficial as many illnesses are aggravated by anxiety and muscle tension.
    • At times, we would simply drift along the coral wall and go into a dreamy hypnotic state in the calm of the deep blue sea.
    • The importance of using both high and low hypnotizable subjects in hypnotic pain research is emphasized.
    • His clinical and research interests include the treatment of anxiety disorders and hypnotic interventions.
    • After receiving hypnotic psychotherapy, she remembered falling off a bicycle when riding down a slope about 10 years earlier.
    • Incidentally, this article was written through the use of several of the hypnotic techniques mentioned within it.
    • She maintains that hypnotic subjects are asked basically to take on ‘what really amounts to a parody of epileptic symptoms.’
    • Charcot demonstrated that such paralyses could be cured, and then artificially produced again, by hypnotic suggestion.
    • That means that the eye roll accounts for very little of the subject's hypnotic behavior.
    • A small number of people who go into a very deep hypnotic state experience spontaneous amnesia.
    • More recently, Elkins described a brief hypnotic intervention for insomnia.
    1. 1.1 Exerting a compelling, fascinating, or soporific effect.
      her voice had a hypnotic quality
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The album is based around beautiful hypnotic drones, kind of avant-garde and kind of calming at the same time.
      • This celebration conveys its own hypnotic delight, inviting us to suspend unanswerable questions about its ultimate purpose.
      • Her heady, hypnotic drumming intensifies both the mood and pace.
      • Gazing at a star-studded night sky is a truly beautiful and hypnotic experience.
      • Given the movie's form and content, Stardom is equally driven by the writer/director's fascination with television's hypnotic power.
      • Guitar and bass driven repetitions have the hypnotic seduction of Stereolab at their best.
      • The thing about that record is that it has some kind of hypnotic appeal.
      • This compilation sounds like nothing else and proves to be strangely hypnotic and fascinating.
      • We struggle to make sense of that, and despite our hypnotic attraction for all things royal, we turn the page.
      • Just got it last week, straight in from Japan and it's wonderful, hypnotic stuff.
      • In human form she is a beautiful young woman with hypnotic amber eyes and pale hair.
      • However, the majority of the film was smooth, multi-layered, and tight, like sublime lyrics over a hypnotic beat.
      • What's bewitching, even hypnotic, about fly-fishing is the cast.
      • He understands the nature of composition, the juxtaposition of light and dark, and the hypnotic wonder of color and texture.
      • His eyes were a hypnotic green and beautifully set into a handsome, chiseled face.
      • ‘Remember Me’ contains one of the greatest guitar riffs of all time and ‘Fear Of Drowning’ is wonderfully hypnotic.
      • Her sisters had been praised and admired and stared at all their lives for their spellbinding, hypnotic electric-blue eyes.
      • His voice may not be as pure as it once was, nor soar quite so magnificently, but it is still wonderfully hypnotic.
      • As he spoke for those two hypnotic hours, he appealed not to my emotion, but to reason.
      • Ehko couldn't help but stare, it was hypnotic, this strange beautiful creature just totally absorbed in licking a spoon.
      Synonyms
      mesmerizing, mesmeric, spellbinding, entrancing, bewitching, fascinating, irresistible, compelling
  • 2Medicine
    (of a drug) sleep-inducing.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The team decided to try a mild hypnotic drug on an as-needed basis to help the patient sleep better during restless nights.
    • Although used more often for its hypnotic properties, valerian is taken to relieve mild symptoms of anxiety.
    • This is especially true in elderly people and for hypnotic drugs.
    • All subjects were in good health and had no contraindications to hypnotic medications.
    • Patients typically need large doses of sedative hypnotic drugs and four-point restraints during this stage.
nounhipˈnädikhɪpˈnɑdɪk
  • 1Medicine
    A sleep-inducing drug.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Rates of use of antidepressants and hypnotics were similar for both groups.
    • Even in Thailand, with much available over the counter, hypnotics are not OTC and should only be taken as the last resort.
    • It's been regarded more as a hypnotic and it also has strong muscle relaxing effects.
    • Running totals of hypnotics were not carried over from the previous month.
    • ‘Pediatricians recommend everything from benadryl to hypnotics to chamomile tea,’ she says.
    Synonyms
    sedative, tranquillizer, calmative, sleeping pill, soporific, opiate, hypnotic
  • 2A person under or open to the influence of hypnotism.

Origin

Early 17th century: from French hypnotique, via late Latin from Greek hupnōtikos ‘causing sleep’, from hupnoun ‘put to sleep’, from hupnos ‘sleep’.

 
 
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