somniferous
/sɒmˈnɪf(ə)rəs
/adjective
Tending to induce sleep; soporific: lifeless actors made the experience even more somniferous for the audiences...
- They all indulge in their familiar, somniferous spiels.
- This book helps put aside what the late Prof. Takaaki Aikawa described as the ‘somniferous romanticism’ with which the Westerner approaches Japanese studies.
- In somniferous mumbles, he reads aloud the entire song.
Origin
Early 17th century: from Latin somnifer (from somnium 'dream') + -ous.
Rhymes
- contestably
- contestant
- contestation
- contester
- context
- contextual
- contextualise
- contextualism
- contextualist
- contextualization
- contextualize
- contextually
- contexture
- contiguity
- contiguous
- contiguously
- continence
- continent
- continental
- Continental Army
- continental breakfast
- continental climate
- Continental Congress
- continental crust
- continental day