meaning of hypnotic
1. Having the quality of producing sleep; tending to produce sleep; soporific.
2. Of or pertaining to hypnotism; in a state of hypnotism; liable to hypnotism; as, a hypnotic condition.
3. Any agent that produces, or tends to produce, sleep; an opiate; a soporific; a narcotic.
4. A person who exhibits the phenomena of, or is subject to, hypnotism.
5. a drug that induces sleep