making you feel as if you are going to fall asleep, especially because of a regular, repeated noise or movement synonym mesmerizing, soporific有催眠作用的;使人昏昏欲睡的 - [only before noun]
connected with or produced by hypnosis 催眠状态的;催眠状态引起的 a hypnotic trance/state 催眠迷睡/状态
(of a drug )药物 making you sleep 安眠的
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from French hypnotique, via late Latin from Greek hupnōtikos ‘causing sleep’, from hupnoun ‘put to sleep’, from hupnos ‘sleep’.