adj.
- relating to or producing hypnosis.
- having a compelling or soporific effect.
- Medicine (of a drug) sleep-inducing.
n.
- Medicine a sleep-inducing drug.
- a person under or open to hypnosis.
Derivative
Etymology
C17: from Fr. hypnotique, via late L. from Gk hupnōtikos ‘causing sleep’, from hupnoun ‘put to sleep’.