Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- adj. Drowsy; sleepy.
- adj. Inducing or tending to induce sleep; soporific.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- adj. Drowsy or sleepy.
- adj. Causing literal or figurative sleepiness; soporific.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. Sleepy; drowsy; inclined to sleep.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Sleepy; drowsy; inclined to sleep; sluggish.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adj. inclined to or marked by drowsiness
Etymologies
Examples
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Especially did he love to lie on his back and have his sleek, cream-coloured throat stroked gently while he purred in somnolent satisfaction.
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Also, the patient was getting a little somnolent, which is never a good sign when you are worried about hypoxemia / hypercarbia, so I figured it would be best if a nurse accompanied her.
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Now I have to look up "somnolent" in the dictionary.
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It means tired and lazy-sort of like "somnolent".
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S----, a comfortable place very slightly disturbed by the fact that it had been already the scene of four battles; there was just this effect, as it seemed to me, that the affairs of the day were carried on with a kind of somnolent indifference ....
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It did not come; but I fell into a kind of somnolent state, in which I suddenly felt as though I were sinking in swiftly flowing water.
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In contrast to Meg Whitman, whose Friday night speech to delegates may be found in the dictionary under "somnolent," Fiorina's talk was energetic, punchy and well-crafted.
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It isn't the weight of history I feel when I look at his paintings: it's a kind of somnolent,
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Or maybe the burlesquing hepcat Spaniards will roll one by the somnolent Coasters. shedders on 9 May 2010
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But spending more is the one thing Obama cannot do, because of the deals House and Senate Republicans have forced on him, and because of a typically passive, somnolent media that does not have nerve enough to come out and call it like it is.
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