Dictionary

slumbersome en · ADJ

Etymology

From slumber + -some.

Meanings

1. 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. 1892, Walter Pater, Plato and Platonism:
   • He was sitting on the shore, his back against a rock, and slipping into such a slumbersome frame of mind that he nearly fell asleep. 2015, Madeline McCully, Derry Folk Tales:
   • 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. 2015, Paul Easter, Consciousness Before Conscience:
   • 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. 2015, Uriah Kriegel, The Varieties of Consciousness:

Forms

Synonyms

sleepbound · drowsy · tired · somnolescent · dragging one's tail · slumberful · somnolent · sleepish · dozy · nodding off · somniculous · adrowse · sleepy · oscitant · out of steam · snoozy · slumberous · drowsy · slumbersome · somnolent · slombry · dopey · eyelids at half-mast · bedroomy · slumbery