hypnotics

as innarcotic

as inopium
as insedative
as insleeping pill
as inopiate
as insomnifacient
as inanesthetic/anaesthetic

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Synonyms for hypnotics

noun powerful drug inducing anesthesia or sleep

Word Origin & History

1620s, "inducing sleep," originally used of drugs, from French hypnotique (16c.) "inclined to sleep, soporific," from Late Latin hypnoticus, from Greek hypnotikos "inclined to sleep, putting to sleep, sleepy," from hypnoun "put to sleep," from hypnos "sleep" (see somnolence). Modern sense of "pertaining to an induced trance" first recorded in English 1843, along with hypnotist, hypnotize, both coined by Dr. James Braid. Related: Hypnotical; hypnotically.

Example Sentences for hypnotics

The training of hypnotics has thrown light on this source of error.

Insomnia must be relieved by opiates, chloral hydrate, or other hypnotics.

Somnos has no deleterious action on blood as is common with other hypnotics.

If physicians were made accountable, they would use narcotics, hypnotics, and cocaine only when absolutely necessary.

Hypnotics are medicines that relieve pain by procuring sleep, such as hops, &c.

Then he'd drugged himself with a combination of opiates and hypnotics that should have knocked out a horse.

There are many similarities between the actions and the mentality of hypnotics and of those in secondary-personality conditions.

With instinctive wariness he thought of hypnotics and single-shot addictors.

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