Somnolent

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Somnolent \Som"no*lent\, a. [F. somnolent, L. somnolentus, from
     somnus sleep, akin to Gr. ?, Skr. svapna sleep, dream, svap
     to sleep, Icel. sofa, AS. swefn sleep. Cf. {Hypnotic},
     {Somnambulism}, {Soporific}.]
     Sleepy; drowsy; inclined to sleep. -- {Som"no*lent*ly}, adv.
     [1913 Webster]


  
           He had no eye for such phenomena, because he had a
           somnolent want of interest in them.      --De Quincey.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  somnolent
       adj : inclined to or marked by drowsiness; "slumberous (or
             slumbrous) eyes"; "`slumbery' is archaic"; "the sound
             had a a somnolent effect" [syn: {slumberous}, {slumbery},
              {slumbrous}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  85 Moby Thesaurus words for "somnolent":
     anesthetized, apathetic, benumbed, blase, bored, cataleptic,
     comatose, dead, debilitated, doped, dopey, dormant, dozy, dreamy,
     droopy, drowsy, drugged, drugged with sleep, dull, enervated,
     exanimate, half asleep, heavy, heavy with sleep, heavy-eyed,
     hebetudinous, in a stupor, inactive, inanimate, inert, jaded,
     lackadaisical, languid, languorous, leaden, lethargic, lifeless,
     listless, lumpish, moribund, napping, narcoleptic, narcose,
     narcotic, narcotized, narcous, nodding, numb, opiate, oscitant,
     out of it, passive, phlegmatic, pooped, sated, sedated,
     sleep-drowned, sleep-drunk, sleep-filled, sleep-swollen, sleepful,
     sleepy, slow, sluggish, slumberous, slumbery, snoozy, somnifacient,
     somniferous, soporific, stagnant, stagnating, stretchy, stultified,
     stuporose, stuporous, supine, torpid, vegetable, vegetative, wan,
     weary, world-weary, yawning, yawny