Word Meanings - SLUMBEROUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Inviting slumber; soporiferous. "Pensive in the slumberous shade." Pope. 2. Being in the repose of slumber; sleepy; drowsy. His quiet and almost slumberous countenance. Hawthorne.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SLUMBEROUS)

• Sleepy
• Slumberous
• somnolent
• drowsy
• sluggish
• lazy

Related words: (words related to SLUMBEROUS)

• DROWSY
  1. Inclined to drowse; heavy with sleepiness; lethargic; dozy. "When I am drowsy." Shak. Dapples the drowsy east with spots of gray. Shak. To our age's drowsy blood Still shouts the inspiring sea. Lowell. 2. Disposing to sleep; lulling; soporific.
• SLUGGISH
  1. Habitually idle and lazy; slothful; dull; inactive; as, a sluggish man. 2. Slow; having little motion; as, a sluggish stream. 3. Having no power to move one's self or itself; inert. Matter, being impotent, sluggish, and inactive, hath no power
• SLEEPY
  1. Drowsy; inclined to, or overcome by, sleep. Shak. She waked her sleepy crew. Dryden. 2. Tending to induce sleep; soporiferous; somniferous; as, a sleepy drink or potion. Chaucer. 3. Dull; lazy; heavy; sluggish. Shak. 'Tis not sleepy business;
• SLUMBEROUS
  1. Inviting slumber; soporiferous. "Pensive in the slumberous shade." Pope. 2. Being in the repose of slumber; sleepy; drowsy. His quiet and almost slumberous countenance. Hawthorne.
• SLEEPYHEAD
  The ruddy duck. (more info) 1. A sleepy person. To bed, to bed, says Sleepyhead. Mother Goose.
• SOMNOLENT
  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. (more info) sleep, akin to Gr. svapna sleep, dream, svap to sleep, Icel. sofa,