List of antonyms from "hyperbole" to antonyms from "hypo-thetical"


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Definition of the day : « hypnotics »

  • As in narcotic : noun powerful drug inducing anesthesia or sleep
  • As in opium : noun narcotic
  • As in sedative : noun soothing agent, medicine
  • As in sleeping pill : noun pill to aid sleep
  • As in opiate : noun drug
  • As in somnifacient : noun soporific
  • As in anesthetic/anaesthetic : noun sleep-inducing or numbing drug
Example sentences :
  • The training of hypnotics has thrown light on this source of error.
  • Extract from : « Introduction to the Science of Sociology » by Robert E. Park
  • Insomnia must be relieved by opiates, chloral hydrate, or other hypnotics.
  • Extract from : « A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I » by Various
  • Somnos has no deleterious action on blood as is common with other hypnotics.
  • Extract from : « The Propaganda for Reform in Proprietary Medicines, Vol. 1 of 2 » by Various
  • If physicians were made accountable, they would use narcotics, hypnotics, and cocaine only when absolutely necessary.
  • Extract from : « Habits that Handicap » by Charles B. Towns
  • Hypnotics are medicines that relieve pain by procuring sleep, such as hops, &c.
  • Extract from : « Mrs. Hale's Receipts for the Million » by Sarah Josepha Hale
  • Then he'd drugged himself with a combination of opiates and hypnotics that should have knocked out a horse.
  • Extract from : « Pursuit » by Lester del Rey
  • There are many similarities between the actions and the mentality of hypnotics and of those in secondary-personality conditions.
  • Extract from : « Psychotherapy » by James J. Walsh
  • With instinctive wariness he thought of hypnotics and single-shot addictors.
  • Extract from : « The Man Who Staked the Stars » by Charles Dye