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somnolent

Syllabification: (som·no·lent)
Pronunciation: /ˈsämnələnt/

Definition of somnolent

adjective

  • sleepy; drowsy.
  • causing or suggestive of drowsiness:a somnolent summer day
  • Medicine abnormally drowsy.

Derivatives

somnolence

noun

somnolency

noun

somnolently

adverb

Origin:

late Middle English (in the sense 'causing sleepiness'): from Old French sompnolent or Latin somnolentus, from somnus 'sleep'

Remember that somnolent is spelled with -ent at the end.

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