English Explanatory Dictionary

dormitive

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Causing sleep.
noun
  1. A medicine to promote sleep; a soporific or opiate.

Word forms

dormitive more dormitive most dormitive dormitives

Etymology

From French dormitif, from the verb dormir (“to sleep”)

Related words

dorm dormant dormition dormitory

Derived words

dormitive principle dormitive virtue
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