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somnolent

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9 lettersPronunciation /ˈsɒmnələnt/Part of speech adjectiveSorted elmnnoostStarts with SEnds with T0 clues
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Definitions

  1. Sleepy or drowsy.

Word origin

First attested in 1615. Borrowed from French somnolent, from Old French sompnolent, from Latin somnolentus, from somnus (“sleep”).

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  • One minute she was gazing at a mockup of a space capsule, safely surrounded by old, somnolent men; […]
  • My tiger is deep in somnolent sleep dreaming of chases remembered! His keen eyes are glinting! He dreams of a sprinting sambar who'll soon be dismembered!
  • As she reached toward the last few fiddleheads growing on the second hummock, her hand froze. She heard the somnolent buzzing of flies again.

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