Crossword clues for somnolent
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
He had no eye for such phenomena, because he had a
somnolent want of interest in them.
--De Quincey.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., sompnolent, from Old French sompnolent (Modern French somnolent) or directly from Latin somnolentus "sleepy, drowsy," from somnus "sleep" (see Somnus). Respelled 17c. on Latin model.
Wiktionary
a. 1 drowsy or sleepy. 2 (context dated English) Causing literal or figurative sleepiness; soporific.
WordNet
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]
Usage examples of "somnolent".
At long intervals the prolonged drone of an insect developed out of the silence, vibrated a moment in a soothing, somnolent, long note, then trailed slowly into the quiet again.
At night the unawakened hive-mind that was New York was as close to somnolent as possible, and the Etheric Currents could be more easily manipulated.
It was under-tinged with all the colours of a morning sunrise over Mount Bobar not far beyond, lifting up its somnolent and massive head into the Eastern sky.
Judith, leaving Arthur to keep Lady Cres swell company, took their parcels back to the car and had to rouse a somnolent Augusto to open the door.
She carried the tray back to the sitting room and found him by the fire, with Cat and the kittens, wrapped in their blanket, in a somnolent heap on his knee.
In amid the somnolent drone of the bumblebees, fat and lazy with midsummer pollen, he felt comfortably alone—detached, even, from the changeable weather.
Their response, muted in deference to the somnolent dragons, was clearly “You’re welcome.
Occuda and Kurik supported the somnolent Bevier to keep him from falling as they descended.
The calm leisured voice rose to a sudden shout that brought the somnolent reporter jack-in-the-box bolt upright and sent him scurrying after notebook and pen that had spilled over the floor.
He listened with half an ear to the disjointed, somnolent mumbling of the two soldiers across the room, who clutched large tankards and, heads leaned together in drunken confidentialness, tried to tell each other of ancient stratagems and mighty marches.
He listened with half an ear to the disjointed, somnolent mumbling of the two soldiers across the room, who clutched large tankards and, heads leaned together in drunken confidentialness, tried to tell each other of ancient strategems and mighty marches.
The babies would chitter and scramble over the indulgent, somnolent bodies of the adults, and nip little bites from the dead animal.
Muir was his usual somnolent self, his eyes half-closed as if he were on the verge of dropping off to sleep: Mayor Morrison, who had won so many medals in the Second World War that he could scarcely have found room for them even on his massive chest, was just plain furious: and so, indisputably, was the President: that expression of kindly tolerance and compassionate wisdom which 'had endeared him to the hearts of millions 'had for the moment been tucked away in the deep freeze.
His gaze fell on the somnolent form of the Kapok Kid, flat on his back in an arm-chair, an enormous pair of fur-lined flying-boots perched above the electric fire.
True, in these years the world experienced panics and wars, and revolutions and contested elections, but these had almost no impact on the somnolent estuaries and secluded coves.