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What is "slumberous"

The Collaborative International Dictionary
Slumberous

Slumberous \Slum"ber*ous\, a.

  1. Inviting slumber; soporiferous. ``Pensive in the slumberous shade.''
    --Pope.

  2. Being in the repose of slumber; sleepy; drowsy.

    His quiet and almost slumberous countenance.
    --Hawthorne.

Wiktionary
slumberous

a. 1 sleepy, drowsy. 2 Sleep-inducing.

WordNet
slumberous

  1. adj. quiet and tranquil; "a slumberous June morning" [syn: slumbrous]

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

Usage examples of "slumberous".

The soul of the black man had not changed, through the slumberous centuries.

Scotch drunk in quick succession after Monique Von Rutter waltzed back into the living room, her lipstick smudged, her hair tousled, her eyes slumberous.

Swallows were flying rather low, and the sky, whose moods they watch, had the slumberous, surcharged beauty of a long, fine day, with showers not far away.

Startlingly, shockingly in the slumberous stillness, there had boomed the deep strident clangor of a great gong!

The hypnolfact on Sitor Ananta's palm penetrates the mucosa of Shau's eyes and instantly renders him slumberous.