Word Meanings - SOMNAMBULISTIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to a somnambulist or somnambulism; affected by somnambulism; appropriate to the state of a somnambulist. Whether this was an intentional and waking departure, or a somnambulistic leave-taking and waking in her sleep, may remain

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Of or pertaining to a somnambulist or somnambulism; affected by somnambulism; appropriate to the state of a somnambulist. Whether this was an intentional and waking departure, or a somnambulistic leave-taking and waking in her sleep, may remain a subject of contention. Dickens.

Related words: (words related to SOMNAMBULISTIC)

• WAKETIME
  Time during which one is awake. Mrs. Browning.
• STATESMANLIKE
  Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
• STATEHOOD
  The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
• WAKE-ROBIN
  Any plant of the genus Arum, especially, in England, the cuckoopint . Note: In America the name is given to several species of Trillium, and sometimes to the Jack-in-the-pulpit.
• INTENTIONALITY
  The quality or state of being intentional; purpose; design. Coleridge.
• APPROPRIATENESS
  The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
• TAKING
  1. Apt to take; alluring; attracting. Subtile in making his temptations most taking. Fuller. 2. Infectious; contageous. Beau. & Fl. -- Tak"ing*ly, adv. -- Tak"ing*ness, n.
• AFFECTATIONIST
  One who exhibits affectation. Fitzed. Hall.
• LEAVE-TAKING
  Taking of leave; parting compliments. Shak.
• LEAVED
  Bearing, or having, a leaf or leaves; having folds; -- used in combination; as, a four-leaved clover; a two-leaved gate; long- leaved.
• DEPARTURE
  The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another. Bouvier. (more info) 1. Division; separation; putting away. No other remedy . . . but absolute departure. Milton.
• AFFECTION
  Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection. Dunglison. 7. The lively representation of any emotion. Wotton. 8. Affectation. "Spruce affection." Shak. 9. Passion; violent emotion. Most wretched man, That to affections
• SLEEPWALKER
  One who walks in his sleep; a somnambulist.
• AFFECTIBILITY
  The quality or state of being affectible.
• AFFECTIVELY
  In an affective manner; impressively; emotionally.
• STATE SOCIALISM
  A form of socialism, esp. advocated in Germany, which, while retaining the right of private property and the institution of the family and other features of the present form of the state, would intervene by various measures intended to
• APPROPRIATE
  Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper. In its strict and appropriate meaning. Porteus. Appropriate acts of divine worship. Stillingfleet. It is not at all times easy to find words
• WAKEN
  To wake; to cease to sleep; to be awakened. Early, Turnus wakening with the light. Dryden.
• TAKE
  Taken. Chaucer.
• REMAIN
  re- + manere to stay, remain. See Mansion, and cf. Remainder, 1. To stay behind while others withdraw; to be left after others have been removed or destroyed; to be left after a number or quantity has been subtracted or cut off; to be left as not
• CREBRICOSTATE
  Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
• BELEAVE
  To leave or to be left. May.
• SAGEBRUSH STATE
  Nevada; -- a nickname.
• OLD LINE STATE
  Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line.
• ENSTATE
  See INSTATE
• OVERAFFECT
  To affect or care for unduly. Milton.
• MISAFFECT
  To dislike.
• UNMISTAKABLE
  Incapable of being mistaken or misunderstood; clear; plain; obvious; evident. -- Un`mis*tak"a*bly, adv.
• KATASTATE
  A substance formed by a katabolic process; -- opposed to anastate. See Katabolic.
• BAYOU STATE
  Mississippi; -- a nickname, from its numerous bayous.
• MISTAKING
  An error; a mistake. Shak.