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slumbersome

adj

Etymology

From slumber + -some.

  1. derived from *(s)lew-✻ — “loose, limp, flabby”
  2. derived from *slūm-✻
  3. derived from slūma
  4. derived from slume — “slumber”
  5. derived from slummen
  6. inherited from slombren
  7. suffixed as slumbersome — “slumber + some”

Definitions

  1. Characterised or marked by slumber

    Characterised or marked by slumber; sleepy.

    • Stimulus, or correction,— one hardly knows which to ask for first, as more salutary for our own slumbersome, yet so self-willed, northern temperaments.
    • 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.
    • 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.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA