Meanings
adjectivehypnoidal (comparative more hypnoidal, superlative most hypnoidal)
comparative more hypnoidal · superlative most hypnoidal
- hypnoid
A tormenting hunger shuddered through her and she wished she could put aside the power. Oh, to be as others were — blind in that safest of all blindnesses, living only the hypnoidal half-life into which birth-shock precipitated most humans.
1976, Frank Herbert, Children of Dune
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Rhymes with hypnoidal
colloidalsinusoidaltoroidalsteroidalnonsteroidaltrapezoidalellipsoidalchoroidalspheroidalsigmoidalhemorrhoidalcuboidalsolenoidalasteroidaladenoidalaliethmoidalalkaloidalamygdaloidalbotryoidalchancroidalcoccoidalconchoidalconoidalcrinoidal
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APA
hypnoidal. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hypnoidal
MLA
“hypnoidal.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hypnoidal. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “hypnoidal,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hypnoidal.
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