Meanings
plural sleeping pills
- medicineA pill or tablet having a soporific effect.
You are my favorite sleeping pill The secret bending of my waking will. You bring me peace, you bring me rest. Your gentle presence leaves me blest.
1979 April 28, “Mousie Mousie Wildflower”, in Gay Community News, page 221 more example
It was a little past ten that night when his nurse, Sylvia of the Bedpans, came tiptoeing in with sleeping pills on a little tray and told him that his friend, Detective Leary, had just been delivered to the emergency room in a meat wagon.
2012, Thomas Gifford, Kiss Me Once, →ISBNSynonyms: sleeping tablet
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA pill or tablet having a soporific effect.
More synonyms by meaning
nouna soporific drug in the form of a pill (or tablet or capsule)
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Arabic مُنَوِّم
- مُنَوِّم (munawwim)a pill having a soporific effect
Chinese Mandarin 安眠藥 /安眠药
- 安眠藥 /安眠药 (ānmiányào)a pill having a soporific effect
Czech uspávadlo, uspávací prostředek
- uspávadloa pill having a soporific effect
- uspávací prostředeka pill having a soporific effect
- prášek na spanía pill having a soporific effect
Dutch slaappil, slaapmiddel
- slaappila pill having a soporific effect
- slaapmiddela pill having a soporific effect
Esperanto dormigilo
- dormigiloa pill having a soporific effect
Finnish unilääke
- unilääkea pill having a soporific effect
French somnifère
- somnifèrea pill having a soporific effect
German Schlafmittel, Schlaftablette
- Schlafmittela pill having a soporific effect
- Schlaftablettea pill having a soporific effect
Greek υπνωτικό
- υπνωτικό (ypnotikó)a pill having a soporific effect
Hungarian altató
- altatóa pill having a soporific effect
Icelandic svefnpilla
- svefnpillaa pill having a soporific effect
Italian sonnifero
- sonniferoa pill having a soporific effect
Japanese 睡眠薬
- 睡眠薬 (suimin'yaku)a pill having a soporific effect
Korean 수면제
- 수면제 (sumyeonje)a pill having a soporific effect
Lithuanian migdomoji tabletė
- migdomoji tabletėa pill having a soporific effect
Norwegian Bokmål sovepille, sovetablett
- sovepillea pill having a soporific effect
- sovetabletta pill having a soporific effect
Polish tabletka nasenna
- tabletka nasennaa pill having a soporific effect
Portuguese pílula para dormir
- pílula para dormira pill having a soporific effect
Russian снотво́рное
- снотво́рное (snotvórnoje)a pill having a soporific effect
Spanish somnífero, pastilla para dormir
- somníferoa pill having a soporific effect
- pastilla para dormira pill having a soporific effect
Tagalog tabletang pampatulog
- tabletang pampatuloga pill having a soporific effect
Thai ยานอนหลับ
- ยานอนหลับ (yaa-nɔɔn-làp)a pill having a soporific effect
Turkish uyku hapı
- uyku hapıa pill having a soporific effect
Cite this entry
sleeping pill. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sleeping%20pill
“sleeping pill.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sleeping%20pill. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sleeping pill,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sleeping%20pill.
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