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Definition of stupefactive in English: stupefactiveadjectivestjuːpɪˈfaktɪv rare (of a drug) inducing unconsciousness or insensibility. Example sentencesExamples - These wines were stupefactive, because they produce forgetfulness.
- This stupefactive power of coriander seed is a newly discovered property.
- The whiskey being exhausted, the Indians retired to rest, under its stupefactive influence.
- Nurses are too apt, for their own ease, to cherish the sleepy disposition of infants, and to increase it by various things of a stupefactive quality.
- Opium and laudanum are both stimulating and stupefactive.
- In lock jaw, and in all convulsive conditions in which opium is prescribed in stupefactive doses.
Synonyms soporific, sleep-inducing, opiate, hypnotic
nounstjuːpɪˈfaktɪv rare A drug which induces unconsciousness or insensibility. Example sentencesExamples - Such a sleep-producing stupefactive is worthy of the highest praise.
- Opium, and other strong stupefactives, do coagulate the spirit, and deprive it of the motion.
- Stupefactives induce a kind of drunkenness by the grossness of their vapour.
- While under the influence of a stupefactive or anaesthetic, the sorcerer or the person subjected to his artifices, beheld spirits or daemons.
- Many accidents have arisen from its too general use as a stupefactive for infants.
Synonyms soporific drug, opiate, sleeping pill, soporific
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