somnambulant
/sʌmnˈæmbjᵿlənt/
somnambulant adjective: walking as if, or while, asleep; sleepwalking.
Adjective
somnambulant (not comparable)
- Walking as if, or while, asleep; sleepwalking.
- Hopeless lost souls of hell, trudging through a decaying shitstream of traffic, wandering, somnambulant herds of the damned, […]2015, Jonathan Shaw, Narcisa: Our Lady of Ashes, New York, N.Y. […]: Infinitum Nihil/Harper Perennial, →ISBN, page 397
- Synonyms:
- somnambulic, somnambulistic
Noun
somnambulant (plural somnambulants)
- A sleepwalker.
somnambulant meaning in Tamil and Bengali
somnambulant in Tamil
- துயில்நடையர்
somnambulant in Bengali
- ঘুমন্ত অবস্থায়, ঘুমের মতো হাঁটা, নিদ্রাচরণ, একজন নিদ্রাচরী
Synonyms of somnambulant
Forms of somnambulant
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| alternative form | somnambulent |
| Noun | |
| plural | somnambulants |
Origin of somnambulant
From Latin somnus (“sleep”) + ambulō (“to walk”) + -ant.
Words formed from somnambulant
Questions about somnambulant
- What does somnambulant mean?
- Somnambulant means walking as if, or while, asleep; sleepwalking.
- What is somnambulant in Tamil?
- Somnambulant in Tamil is துயில்நடையர். See Somnambulant meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is somnambulant?
- Somnambulant can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce somnambulant?
- Somnambulant is pronounced /sʌmnˈæmbjᵿlənt/.
Words near somnambulant in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: somnambulant (page history and authors); somnambulant (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); somnambulant (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-somnambulant.wav.
Cite this entry: “somnambulant.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/somnambulant. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.