slumbersome

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English

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Etymology

From slumber +‎ -some.

Adjective

slumbersome (comparative more slumbersome, superlative most slumbersome)

  1. Characterised or marked by slumber; sleepy.
    • 1892, Walter Pater, Plato and Platonism:
      Stimulus, or correction,— one hardly knows which to ask for first, as more salutary for our own slumbersome, yet so self-willed, northern temperaments.
    • 2015, Paul Easter, Consciousness Before Conscience:
      Flashing lights and sirens ring incredulously one slumber-some December night as baby is tucked in tight while mommy and daddy were going on like it was Saturday fight night.
    • 2015, Uriah Kriegel, The Varieties of Consciousness:
      We can also stipulate that the imagining is done with great energy and concentration whereas the perceiving is slumbersome. It is unclear in what sense the former is supposed to be “more intense” than the latter.
    • 2015, Madeline McCully, Derry Folk Tales:
      He was sitting on the shore, his back against a rock, and slipping into such a slumbersome frame of mind that he nearly fell asleep.