Definition of "hypnotic" in English

adjective

1. Of or relating to hypnosis or hypnotism.

2. Capturing a person's attention to the exclusion of all else, as if placing them into a trance.

3. (pharmacology) Inducing sleep; soporific.

4. (botany, obsolete) Dormant.

   • hypnotic seeds

noun

1. A person who is, or can be, hypnotized.

2. (pharmacology) A soporific substance.