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som·no·lent    Audio Help   [som-nuh-luhnt] Pronunciation Key
–adjective
1.sleepy; drowsy.
2.tending to cause sleep.

[Origin: 1425–75; late ME sompnolent < OF < L somnolentus, deriv. of somnus sleep; see -ulent]

som·no·lence, som·no·len·cy, noun
som·no·lent·ly, adverb

1. slumberous. 2. somniferous, soporific.
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som·no·lent    Audio Help   (sŏm'nə-lənt)  Pronunciation Key 
adj.  
  1. Drowsy; sleepy.
  2. Inducing or tending to induce sleep; soporific.


[Middle English sompnolent, from Old French, from Latin somnolentus : somnus, sleep; see swep- in Indo-European roots + -olentus, abounding in.]

som'no·lent·ly adv.
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somnolent

adjective
inclined to or marked by drowsiness; "slumberous (or slumbrous) eyes"; "'slumbery' is archaic"; "the sound had a somnolent effect" [syn: slumberous

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som·no·lent (smn-lnt)
adj.

  1. Drowsy; sleepy.
  2. Inducing or tending to induce sleep; soporific.
  3. In a condition of incomplete sleep; semicomatose.

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Main Entry: som·no·lent
Pronunciation: -l&nt
Function: adjective
: inclined to or heavy with sleep : DROWSY

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Somnolent

Som*nam`bu*la"tion\, n. [L. somnus sleep + ambulatio a walking about, from ambulare to walk. See Somnolent, Amble.] The act of walking in sleep.
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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 phenomens, because he had a somnolent want of interest in them. --De Quincey.
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Somnolent

Sop`o*rif"ic\ (?; 277), a. [L. sopor a heavy sleep (akin to somnus sleep) + facere to make. See Somnolent, Fact.] Causing sleep; tending to cause sleep; soporiferous; as, the soporific virtues of opium.

Syn: Somniferous; narcotic; opiate; anodyne.
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Somnolent

Swe"ven\, n. [AS. swefen sleep, dream; akin to swebban, swefian, to put to sleep, to kill. [root]176. See Somnolent.] A vision seen in sleep; a dream. [Obs.] --Wycliff (Acts ii. 17).

I defy both sweven and dream. --Chaucer.
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