Definition

1. Adjective:

   • Causing or inducing perspiration: Describes a substance, agent, or activity that promotes sweating.

2. Noun:

   • A substance that causes sweating: A medicine or agent, often used for therapeutic purposes, that induces or increases perspiration.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • The sudorific herbs were used in the traditional steam bath.
  • Exercise has a sudorific effect on the body.
• Noun:
  • The doctor prescribed a sudorific to help reduce the fever.
  • Some natural sudorifics include ginger and yarrow.

Advanced Usage

• In a medical/therapeutic context: Often used to describe treatments intended to purge toxins or reduce fever through induced sweating.
  • The old remedy relied on sudorific properties to treat the common cold.
• In a descriptive, non-medical context: Can describe any activity or environment that causes profuse sweating.
  • The sudorific atmosphere of the tropical greenhouse was overwhelming.

Variants and Related Words

• Diaphoretic (adj/n): A more common medical synonym for sudorific, meaning sweat-inducing or a sweat-inducing agent.
• Sudation (n): The process or state of sweating.
• Perspiratory (adj): Relating to or causing perspiration.

Synonyms

• Adjective: Sweat-inducing, diaphoretic, perspiratory.
• Noun: Diaphoretic, sweat-producer.

Antonyms

• Adjective: Anhidrotic (inhibiting sweating), antiperspirant.
• Noun: Anhidrotic (an agent that suppresses sweating).

Notes on Usage

• Formality: "Sudorific" is a formal, technical term primarily used in medical, pharmacological, or botanical contexts. In everyday language, phrases like "makes you sweat" or "sweat-inducing" are more common.
• Clarity: When used as a noun, it is often preceded by an article (a, the) or a quantifier (some, any).

Adjective

1. inducing perspiration

Noun

1. a medicine that causes or increases sweating