Hypnotic
CLASS OF PSYCHOACTIVE DRUGS WHOSE PRIMARY FUNCTION IS TO INDUCE SLEEP AND TO BE USED IN THE TREATMENT OF INSOMNIA (SLEEPLESSNESS), OR FOR SURGICAL ANESTHESIA.
Soporific; Sleeping pill; Sleeping pills; Sleeping tablet; Hypnotics; Hypnotic drugs; Sleep pill; Sleeping tablets; Sleep pills; Hypnotic-sedative; Somnorific; Sleeping Pills; Hypnotic drug; Hypnotica (medicine); Sedative-hypnotic medication; Pharmaceutical sleep aids
·noun A person who exhibits the phenomena of, or is subject to, hypnotism.
II. Hypnotic ·adj Having the quality of producing sleep; tending to produce sleep; soporific.
III. Hypnotic ·noun Any agent that produces, or tends to produce, sleep; an opiate; a soporific; a narcotic.
IV. Hypnotic ·adj Of or pertaining to hypnotism; in a state of hypnotism; liable to hypnotism; as, a hypnotic condition.