slumberous
Americanadjective
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sleepy; heavy with drowsiness, as the eyelids.
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causing or inducing sleep.
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pertaining to, characterized by, or suggestive of slumber.
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inactive or sluggish; calm or quiet.
adjective
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sleepy; drowsy
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inducing sleep
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characteristic of slumber
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But even as the city was modernized, Stalingrad's color and flavor still derived from the life teeming on the many-storied landing stages of the broad, slumberous Volga.
From Time Magazine Archive
After a slumberous afternoon in which the gallery attendants glared at dozers,* the bill came to passage.
From Time Magazine Archive
None of the songs on Spice, from the slumberous ballad 2 Become 1 to the bass-heavy party jam Something Kinda Funny, come across as deeply felt; they all seem designed to amuse, titillate, ingratiate.
From Time Magazine Archive
Richie's first new album in 10 years is also a rather slumberous affair, one whose title, Louder than Words, belies its content.
From Time Magazine Archive
There was only a faint rustle among the young leaves of the willows that sounded like slumberous breathing through half-closed lips; and a gentle splashing came up from the invisible river.
From Regina or the Sins of the Fathers by Sudermann, Hermann
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