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adj. - Sleep inducing.

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Usage examples (37)
  • The whole plant is known to be gently narcotic and somniferous.
  • Somali good advice, long as the somniferous sermons of Mentor to the insipid son of Ulysses.
  • -- The most tranquillising, or even somniferous melodies ever composed, must have been those written by the celebrated LULLI.
  • Starlight paddling over reflected stars was enchanting, but somniferous.
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