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hypnotic

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hyp·not·ic  (hp-ntk)
adj.
1.
a. Of or relating to hypnosis.
b. Of or relating to hypnotism.
2. Inducing or tending to induce sleep; soporific: read the bedtime story in a hypnotic voice.
n.
1.
a. A person who is hypnotized.
b. A person who can be hypnotized.
2. An agent that causes sleep; a soporific.

[French hypnotique, from Late Latin hypnticus, inducing sleep, from Greek hupntikos, from hupnoun, to put to sleep, from hupnos, sleep; see swep- in Indo-European roots.]

hyp·noti·cal·ly adv.

hypnotic
Adjective
1. of or producing hypnosis or sleep
2. having an effect resembling hypnosis: the film makes for hypnotic viewing
Noun
a drug that induces sleep [Greek hupnos sleep]
hypnotically adv
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.hypnotic - a drug that induces sleep
drug - a substance that is used as a medicine or narcotic
narcoleptic - a soporific drug that produces an uncontrollable desire to sleep
sleeping capsule, sleeping draught, sleeping pill, sleeping tablet - a soporific drug in the form of a pill (or tablet or capsule)
hypnagogue - an agent that induces drowsiness or sleep
Adj.1.hypnotic - of or relating to hypnosis
2.hypnotic - attracting and holding interest as if by a spell; "read the bedtime story in a hypnotic voice"; "she had a warm mesmeric charm"; "the sheer force of his presence was mesmerizing"; "a spellbinding description of life in ancient Rome"
attractive - pleasing to the eye or mind especially through beauty or charm; "a remarkably attractive young man"; "an attractive personality"; "attractive clothes"; "a book with attractive illustrations"
Translations
hypnotic [hɪpˈnɔtɪk] adjhipnótico
hypnotic [hɪpˈnɔtɪk] adjhypnotique
hypnotic [hɪpˈnɔtɪk] hypnosis adjhypnotisierend;
(trance) → hypnotisch
hypnotic [hɪpˈnɔtɪk] adjipnotico/a


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The poor creatures on the islands awaiting their fate tried to cover their eyes with their hands to hide the fearful sight, but now I saw that they too were under the hypnotic spell of the reptiles, so that they could only crouch in terror with their eyes fixed upon the terrible thing that was transpiring before them.
It is a power that is partly racial and partly individual: a power impregnated with some mysterious quality, partly hypnotic, partly mesmeric, which seems to take away from eyes that meet them all power of resistance--nay, all power of wishing to resist.
He replied, "We have the best proof of that, your own evidence, when in the hypnotic trance this morning.
 
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