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hypnotic

adjective as in spellbinding, sleep-inducing

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As for Manson, Spahn said, there was no explanation—he had a hypnotic spell over the girls, they were his slaves.

[It] does not resemble standard antipsychotic, antidepressant, antianxiety or hypnotic drugs in simple drug interaction tests.

The first thing to hit me were those cats eyes of hers, green with flecks of gold and hypnotic as hell.

There is a rocking, hypnotic peacefulness in the way he puts words together.

He is a master of the breathless paragraph, the hypnotic meditation.

"Please don't try the old hypnotic fakir tricks upon me, Baroudi," she added, pushing up the cushions against the rock behind her.

She had read in books of the mysteries of hypnotic suggestion, but she was far too practical to believe in that.

In the medical circles throughout the country a good deal of interest and even enthusiasm over this new hypnotic is noticeable.

It is the sodium salt of the more or less favorably known hypnotic, Veronal (diethyl-barbituric acid).

Pas-Avena is a widely advertised nerve sedative and hypnotic.

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On this page you'll find 43 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to hypnotic, such as: mesmerizing, soothing, anesthetic/anaesthetic, anodyne, lenitive, and narcotic.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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