[
UK
/hɪpnˈɒtɪk/
]
[ US /hɪpˈnɑtɪk/ ]
[ US /hɪpˈnɑtɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
attracting and holding interest as if by a spell
read the bedtime story in a hypnotic voice
she had a warm mesmeric charm
a spellbinding description of life in ancient Rome
the sheer force of his presence was mesmerizing - of or relating to hypnosis
NOUN
- a drug that induces sleep
How To Use hypnotic In A Sentence
- It's almost hypnotic—the scratching of the pencil on the page.
- Her sisters had been praised and admired and stared at all their lives for their spellbinding, hypnotic electric-blue eyes.
- The band plays music that's supposedly hypnotic yet danceable.
- Gazing at a star-studded night sky is a truly beautiful and hypnotic experience.
- But while it's consistently interesting and hypnotically watchable, its manipulative techniques should remind us what sort of thing a movie is.
- Putting years of training into learning how to apply hypnotic and meridian therapies is quite a dramatic departure for the father-of-three after running a regional building society for much of his life.
- Neuroscience has not fully exploited hypnosis and hypnotic suggestion as experimental tools.
- Toure sounds outrageously laid-back, but the insistent rhythmic pulse in his music is hypnotic and irresistible.
- As he spoke for those two hypnotic hours, he appealed not to my emotion, but to reason.
- Chapter Two contains a number of case studies from the professional literature in which hypnotic interventions were used to treat chronic illness, most particularly, cancer and hemophilia.