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adjective
tending to produce sleep : soporific
of or relating to hypnosis or hypnotism
readily holding the attention a simple hypnotic beat
a hypnotic personality
noun
a sleep-inducing agent : soporific
one that is or can be hypnotized
Adjective French or Late Latin; French hypnotique, from Late Latin hypnoticus, from Greek hypnōtikos, from hypnoun to put to sleep, from hypnos
The first known use of hypnotic was in 1625
hypnotismnoun
the study of or act of causing hypnosis
hypnosis
hypnotismnoun
the study of or act of causing hypnosis
hypnosis
hypnotic1 of 2adjective
tending to cause sleep
of or relating to hypnosis or hypnotism
hypnotic2 of 2noun
an agent (as a drug) that causes or tends to cause sleep
1 And the director Christopher Ashley, a Tony winner for his work on “Come From Away,” kept “Diana” moving as seamlessly and hypnotically as the princess’ frenzied, tabloid-ready life.
2 Because she varied her facial and hand gestures only slightly and shuffled hypnotically in place, the spectator was drawn into the actual content of the filibusters.
3 There are exquisite moments of beauty, too: pleasure taken in a rising cloud of chalk dust, a performer on a hoop swinging hypnotically in circles to a plaintive solo female voice.
4 He adopted a hypnotically drowsy tone on “Better Things,” which insisted on a distinction between “the singing of real birds” and “those absurd birds that simply everybody’s heard.”
5 Yet while the Druid “Richard III” is hypnotically watchable, it seldom engages the emotions.
6 Despite, or maybe because of, a total lack of perspective, the murals are both instantly accessible and, with their delightful colors and childlike figures, almost hypnotically engaging.
7 This point of view saturates “The Cursed Child,” which seems to occur in a land of hypnotically luminous darkness that should mesmerize adults as effectively as children.
8 British author Lucy Hughes-Hallett, who chaired the judging panel, said the “hypnotically compelling” book was both “appalling” and poetic, “entering the reader’s consciousness at a level that bypasses rationality and transcends the subject matter.”
9 Six vocalists burn incense while hypnotically describing the scents released and their relationship to the days of the week.
10 This being looks at her with a hypnotically deep and steady gaze, as if penetrating her with its eyes.
天使如催眠般深深凝望着她,仿佛要用目光将她穿透。
11 The music, of course, is divine, but it’s Sergio Trujillo’s choreography, full of dazzling splits and hypnotically synchronized unisons, that lifts this jukebox musical above the ordinary.
12 He then joshed with the audience about what to play next, went off stage for some cold-cure, and returned with a hypnotically rolling trill like a bowed double-bass, buoying up a delicate ballad motif.
13 She was, she later recalled, drawn hypnotically to the largest structure, Corkhill Hall, where miners had gathered years before.
14 I’ve always found the fitness magazine’s “body challenge” series hypnotically compelling, and there is nothing like the prospect of an “after” photoshoot to keep you away from the fridge.
15 A squirt bottle swung from his belt, the blue liquid inside sloshing hypnotically.
16 Soon after Rike leaves Gibraltar, she is enveloped by the ocean, and the movie shifts into the visual and auditory minimalism that defines its alluring, almost hypnotically soothing first third.
17 Ditto Valentino, which clocked in at just over a minute with its hypnotically morphing single piece of fabric/promo for a July 21 show.
18 I stared at the tip, which moved from side to side hypnotically, like a cobra getting ready to strike.
19 The music throbbed hypnotically.
音乐咚咚作响,叫人昏昏欲睡。
20 In the video, cartons brimming with marinara sauce spin hypnotically on checkered tablecloths.