Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Half-asleep; somnolent; drowsy.

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  • adjective Drowsy, tending to sleep

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Examples

  • Up-river, great new works of I know not what kind stood like a bastion against the plain; and in between ran these oldest bits of Lynn, somnolescent and refreshing -- permanent.

    Hills and the Sea Hilaire Belloc 1911

  • The somnolescent reader is only too ready to spare himself the poetic exaltation in which the old bard must be read, if we would really see the divinities, and grasp the spirit of their dealings with man.

    Homer's Odyssey A Commentary Denton Jaques Snider 1883

  • The poor litigant will wait for the somnolescent process and leisurely pronouncement and the wealthy litigant will have his case speedily terminated.

    The Hindu - Front Page 2010

  • For those who could didn't fall asleep during Barack Obama's often somnolescent news conference after the 20 Richest Nations (aka G-20) summit in London, he provided insight into his views on capitalism, on American leadership, and on his de facto ...

    ScreenTalk 2009

  • For those who could didn't fall asleep during Barack Obama's often somnolescent news conference after the 20 Richest Nations (aka G-20) summit in London, he provided insight into his views on capitalism, on American leadership, and on his de facto ...

    ScreenTalk 2009

  • For those who could didn't fall asleep during Barack Obama's often somnolescent news conference after the 20 Richest Nations (aka G-20) summit in London, he provided insight into his views on capitalism, on American leadership, and on his de facto ...

    ScreenTalk 2009

  • Finally, a word about one of the owners, a stout, dark woman with a sing-songy, somnolescent accent straight from the rancho.

    unknown title 2009

  • Give me the criminal Nixon or the somnolescent geriatric Reagan over Dubya any day.

    English-writing Israeli-bloggers 2008

  • New Madrid (winner of the Wallflower award, imho a duff choice) narrates John James Audubon’s account of the 1812 New Madrid earthquake which altered the flow of the Mississippi river, over footage of landscape and submerged trees: beautiful and meditative, but also somnolescent.

    January « 2009 « Squares of Wheat 2009

  • New Madrid (winner of the Wallflower award, imho a duff choice) narrates John James Audubon’s account of the 1812 New Madrid earthquake which altered the flow of the Mississippi river, over footage of landscape and submerged trees: beautiful and meditative, but also somnolescent.

    Leftfield and Looping « Squares of Wheat 2009

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