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English
Etymology
From un- + slumbrous.
Adjective
unslumbrous (comparative more unslumbrous, superlative most unslumbrous)
- (archaic, poetic) sleepless
1818, John Keats, “Book I”, in Endymion: A Poetic Romance, London: T Miller, for Taylor and Hessey, , →OCLC, page 1:How sickening, how dark the dreadful leisure
Of weary days, made deeper exquisite,
By a fore-knowledge of unslumbrous night!