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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Example Sentences
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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
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
So powerfully does Author O'Donnell evoke the slumberous qualities in his scene that readers may often find their eyes closing softly, their breathing growing regular and even, the book slipping from their nerveless fingers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Death is an angel whose magnetic palms Bring dreams of ecstasy and slumberous calms To smooth the beds of naked men and poor.
From The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker by Baudelaire, Charles
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