| 单词 | somnolent |
| 释义 | somnolent (once / 7933 pages) adj If you're somnolent, you're feeling sleepy or drowsy. It's best to avoid operating speedboats or motorcycles when you're somnolent. Somnolent comes from the Latin word somnolentia, meaning sleepiness, which in turn is from the Latin root somnus, for sleep. You can feel somnolent, or describe something as somnolent. As an adjective it describes something that is likely to induce sleep, like a boring movie in an overheated theater, or the low, somnolent lighting in a museum exhibit of fragile, old illuminated manuscripts. WORD FAMILYsomnolent: somnolence, somnolently USAGE EXAMPLESSoon enough, even the good songs became tedious, and I began to resent Bing Crosby and his somnolent phrasing. Slate(Dec 23, 2016) We passed griddles of salt pans, smallholdings of tobacco, and somnolent lagoons stained white and pink with flowering waterlilies. Washington Post(Dec 08, 2016) All that “blah blah blah” is steeped in a somnolent restlessness that promises sweet awakenings. New York Times(Dec 08, 2016) adj inclined to or marked by drowsiness the sound had a somnolent effect Syn slumberous, slumbery, slumbrous asleep in a state of sleep |
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