hypnotic

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

hyp·not·ic adjective, noun BrE [hɪpˈnɒtɪk] NAmE [hɪpˈnɑːtɪk]
adjective
1. making you feel as if you are going to fall asleep, especially because of a regular, repeated noise or movement
Syn: ↑mesmerizing, Syn: ↑soporific
•hypnotic music
•His voice had an almost hypnotic effect.
2. only before noun connected with or produced by ↑hypnosis
•a hypnotic trance/state
3. (of a drug)making you sleep

Word Origin:
early 17th cent.: from French hypnotique, via late Latin from Greek hupnōtikos ‘causing sleep’, from hupnoun ‘put to sleep’, from hupnos ‘sleep’.
 
noun (technical)
a drug that makes you sleep; a ↑sleeping pill

Word Origin:
[hypnotic] early 17th cent.: from French hypnotique, via late Latin from Greek hupnōtikos ‘causing sleep’, from hupnoun ‘put to sleep’, from hupnos ‘sleep’.
 

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  mesmeric, mesmerizing, spellbinding, soporific