somnolent
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
[1913 Webster]
He had no eye for such phenomena, because he had a
somnolent want of interest in them. --De Quincey.
[1913 Webster]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
85 Moby Thesaurus words for "somnolent":
anesthetized, apathetic, benumbed, blase, bored, cataleptic,
comatose, dead, debilitated, doped, dopey, dormant, dozy, dreamy,
droopy, drowsy, drugged, drugged with sleep, dull, enervated,
exanimate, half asleep, heavy, heavy with sleep, heavy-eyed,
hebetudinous, in a stupor, inactive, inanimate, inert, jaded,
lackadaisical, languid, languorous, leaden, lethargic, lifeless,
listless, lumpish, moribund, napping, narcoleptic, narcose,
narcotic, narcotized, narcous, nodding, numb, opiate, oscitant,
out of it, passive, phlegmatic, pooped, sated, sedated,
sleep-drowned, sleep-drunk, sleep-filled, sleep-swollen, sleepful,
sleepy, slow, sluggish, slumberous, slumbery, snoozy, somnifacient,
somniferous, soporific, stagnant, stagnating, stretchy, stultified,
stuporose, stuporous, supine, torpid, vegetable, vegetative, wan,
weary, world-weary, yawning, yawny
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