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Meaning of "somnifacient" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF SOMNIFACIENT

ˌsɒmnɪˈfeɪʃənt


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SOMNIFACIENT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Somnifacient is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SOMNIFACIENT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of somnifacient in the English dictionary

The definition of somnifacient in the dictionary is a sleep-inducer.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SOMNIFACIENT

abortifacient · absorbefacient · calefacient · coefficient · deficient · delirifacient · efficient · febrifacient · impatient · inpatient · insufficient · liquefacient · omnipatient · outpatient · parturifacient · patient · putrefacient · rubefacient · sorbefacient · sufficient

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SOMNIFACIENT

somnambule · somnambulic · somnambulism · somnambulist · somnambulistic · somnial · somniate · somniative · somniatory · somniferous · somniferously · somnific · somniloquence · somniloquies · somniloquise · somniloquism · somniloquist · somniloquize · somniloquous · somniloquy

WORDS THAT END LIKE SOMNIFACIENT

ancient · binomial coefficient · client · conscient · correlation coefficient · diffusion coefficient · drag coefficient · energy-efficient · fuel-efficient · immunodeficient · inconscient · inefficient · omniscient · partition coefficient · Pearson´s correlation coefficient · Pearson´s product moment correlation coefficient · perficient · permeability coefficient · prescient · scient · self-sufficient

Synonyms and antonyms of somnifacient in the English dictionary of synonyms

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TRANSLATION OF SOMNIFACIENT

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The translations of somnifacient from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «somnifacient» in English.
zh

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somnifacient
1,325 millions of speakers
es

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somníferas
570 millions of speakers
en

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somnifacient
510 millions of speakers
hi

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somnifacient
380 millions of speakers
ar

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منوم
280 millions of speakers
ru

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снотворный
278 millions of speakers
pt

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somnifacient
270 millions of speakers
bn

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somnifacient
260 millions of speakers
fr

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somnifères
220 millions of speakers
ms

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Somnifacient
190 millions of speakers
de

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einschläfernden
180 millions of speakers
ja

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somnifacient
130 millions of speakers
ko

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수면제
85 millions of speakers
jv

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Somnifacient
85 millions of speakers
vi

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somnifacient
80 millions of speakers
ta

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தூக்கம் உண்டாக்குகிற
75 millions of speakers
mr

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सिनिफॅक्टर
75 millions of speakers
tr

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somnifacient
70 millions of speakers
it

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soporifere
65 millions of speakers
pl

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somnifacient
50 millions of speakers
uk

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снодійний
40 millions of speakers
ro

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somnifacient
30 millions of speakers
el

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somnifacient
15 millions of speakers
af

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slaapmiddel
14 millions of speakers
sv

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somnifacient
10 millions of speakers
no

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somnifacient
5 millions of speakers

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SOMNIFACIENT»

Discover the use of somnifacient in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to somnifacient and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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ElderSpeak: A Thesaurus or Compendium of Words Related to ...
A Thesaurus or Compendium of Words Related to Old Age James L. Reynolds, MD. somnifacient (som"ni-fay'shənt, som"nǝ-) adj. describes a sleep-inducing, soporific, q.v., drug. [< L somnus sleep + facere to make]. n. somnifaeient = a drug  ...
James L. Reynolds, MD, 2014
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The Word Lover's Delight: Awesome Adjectives, Nifty Nouns, ...
... tennis player signed autographs for over an hour after his match. somnambulant (adj.) som-NAM-byoo-lent—of walking or performing tasks during sleep Todd's somnambulant state during class aggravated his teachers. somnifacient (adj.) ...
From the Editors of the Captivate Network, 2009
3
Thriller in room 313:
What do you mean? - I mean... Look. When somebody sink in the bath, jump from the window, cut his veins and staff like this, he or she may be given kind of somnifacient or psychoactive drug. And affected person may do a lot of stupid things.
jus bomon
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Roget's II: The New Thesaurus
See also impure, intellectual. sophistication лoun See contamination. sophistry noun See fallacy. soporific noun Something that induces sleep or sedation : hypnotic, narcotic, opiate, sedative, somnifacient. See AWARENESS in Index. soporific ...
Peter Mark Roget, 1997
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Annual Report
preparations or mixtures thereof possessing hypnotic properties or effects, and chloral or chloral hydrate or any compounds or mixtures thereof possessing hypnotic properties or effects, when such barbital or other hypnotic and somnifacient ...
Colorado. State Board of Pharmacy, 1939
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New York State Journal of Medicine
An Act to Amend the Education Law and Penal Law, in Relation to Hypnotic and Somnifacient Drugs Chapter 697 of the Laws of 1946 in the Stale of New York, Nos. 1467, 2139, 2678; Int. 1319 in Senate February 13, 1946* The People of the  ...
‎1946
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Annual Report of the State Board of Pharmacy of Colorado for ...
Regulation No. 2 — Filing of Prescriptions Prescriptions for barbital and/or other hypnotic and somnifacient drugs must be preserved by the pharmacist by filing the original in a file kept for that purpose. It is not necessary to keep a separate file ...
Colorado. State Board of Pharmacy
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The Unity of Hegel's "Phenomenology of Spirit": A Systematic ...
For instance, we could say there is a law which states that opium induces sleep due to the somnifacient property of a force which it contains. This is both a law ( opium induces sleep) and an explanation (because of its somnifacient property).
Jon Stewart, 2011
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The Code of Federal Regulations of the United States of America
... one or more of the derivatives of barbituric acid and in addition a sufficient quantity or proportion of another drug or drugs to prevent the ingestion of a sufficient amount of barbituate derivative to cause a hypnotic or somnifacient effect.
‎1966
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Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English
See para4 of: somnolence, somnolent; somnambulate, somnambulism (whence, anl, somnambulist, whence somnambulistic); somnifacient, somniferous, somniloquy (whence, anl, somniloquous); somnolescent, whence somnolescence ...
Eric Partridge, 2006
REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Somnifacient [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/somnifacient>. May 2024 ».
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