as in hypnotic
tending to cause sleep
a somniferous enumeration of details that I could have done without
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Everyone was back in the Dolby Theatre, a welcome return after last year’s somniferous experiment from Steven Soderbergh, which was held in Los Angeles’s Union Station.
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Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2022
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“Somniferous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/somniferous. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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