hypnotic

• hypnotick (obsolete)

From French hypnotique (“inclined to sleep, soporific”), from Late Latin hypnoticus, from Ancient Greek ὑπνωτικός (hupnōtikós, “inclined to sleep, putting to sleep, sleepy”), from ὑπνῶ (hupnô, “I put to sleep”), from ὕπνος (húpnos, “sleep”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /hɪpˈnɒ.tɪk/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /hɪpˈnɑ.tɪk/, [hɪp̚ˈnɑ.ɾɪk̚]

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• Rhymes: -ɒtɪk
• Hyphenation: hyp‧no‧tic

hypnotic (comparative more hypnotic, superlative most hypnotic)

1. Of or relating to hypnosis or hypnotism.

   Synonym: mesmeric

2. Capturing a person's attention to the exclusion of all else, as if placing them into a trance.

   Synonym: captivating

3. (pharmacology) Inducing sleep; soporific.
4. (botany, obsolete) Dormant.

   hypnotic seeds

• hypnotize
• hypnotism
• hypnotist
• hypnosis

hypnotic (plural hypnotics)

1. A person who is, or can be, hypnotized.
2. (pharmacology) A soporific substance.

• “hypnotic”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “hypnotic”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

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