slumberous
adjective
sleepy; heavy with drowsiness, as the eyelids.
slumbrous
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a variation of
slumberous.
Example Sentences
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Whatever one thinks of Reform—and it’s hard to know what to think of it—such an outcome would suggest that Scotland’s era of slumbrous conformity may soon come to an end.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
A man sprawls on a bed, between potted plant and slumbrous dog.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 16, 2010
In slumbrous, easy-going Siam the gentle comedy of deposing King Prajadhipok as Absolute Monarch and reinstating King Prajadhipok as Constitutional Monarch was wafted to its close last week.
From Time Magazine Archive
The wounded man's eyes, which after the cooling drink, were closing again in slumbrous weariness, opened widely, and gazed upon the candidate with astonishment and fear.
From For Sceptre and Crown, Vol. II (of II) A Romance of the Present Time by Johann Ferdinand Martin Oskar Meding
Was nought around but images of rest, Sleep-soothing groves, and quiet lawns between, And flowery beds, that slumbrous influence cast From poppies breathed; and beds of pleasant green.
From Born to Wander A Boy's Book of Nomadic Adventures by Gordon Stables
