different between enervate vs soporific

English

Etymology

From Latin ?nerv?tus, past participle of ?nerv? (“to weaken”).

Pronunciation

• (verb): IPA^(key): /??n.?(?)?ve?t/ (UK)
• (adjective): IPA^(key): /??n.?(?).v?t/ (UK)

Verb

enervate (third-person singular simple present enervates, present participle enervating, simple past and past participle enervated)

1. (transitive) To reduce strength or energy; debilitate.

   After being laid off three times in a row, she felt too enervated to look for another job.

2. (transitive) To weaken morally or mentally.
3. (medicine) To partially or completely remove a nerve.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:enervate.

Synonyms

• (reduce strength): debilitate, weaken

Antonyms

• (reduce strength): strengthen, revive
• (reduce morally, mentally): bolster

Translations

Adjective

enervate (comparative more enervate, superlative most enervate)

1. Made feeble; weakened.

Anagrams

• venerate

Latin

Participle

?nerv?te

1. vocative masculine singular of ?nerv?tus

English

Alternative forms

• soporifick (obsolete)

Etymology

From French soporifique, from Latin sopor (“deep sleep”), from Proto-Indo-European *swep?r, from *swep-. Unrelated to stupor (distinct in Proto-Indo-European).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?s?p.????f.?k/, /?so?.p????f.?k/

Noun

soporific (plural soporifics)

1. (pharmacology) Something inducing sleep, especially a drug.

2. (figuratively) Something boring or dull.

Translations

Adjective

soporific (comparative more soporific, superlative most soporific)

1. (pharmacology) Tending to induce sleep.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:soporific

   • 1909, Beatrix Potter, The Tale of The Flopsy Bunnies:

     It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is “soporific.” I have never felt sleepy after eating lettuces; but then I am not a rabbit. They certainly had a very soporific effect upon the Flopsy Bunnies!
2. (figuratively) Boring, dull.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:boring

Translations

Romanian

Etymology

From French soporifique.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /so.po?ri.fik/

Adjective

soporific m or n (feminine singular soporific?, masculine plural soporifici, feminine and neuter plural soporifice)

1. soporific

   Synonyms: somnifer, soporifer

Declension