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somnambular

somnambular adjective: sleepy; asleep or as if asleep.

Adjective

somnambular (comparative more somnambular, superlative most somnambular)

  1. sleepy; asleep or as if asleep
    • And while the palpitating peaks break out
      Ecstatic from somnambular repose
      With answers to the presence and the shout,
      We, poets of the people, who take part
      With elemental justice, natural right,
      Join in our echoes also, nor refrain.1859, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Napoleon III in Italy

Forms of somnambular

comparativemore somnambular
superlativemost somnambular

Questions about somnambular

What does somnambular mean?
Somnambular means sleepy; asleep or as if asleep.
What part of speech is somnambular?
Somnambular is an adjective.

Words near somnambular in the dictionary

  1. somnambulance
  2. somnambulancy
  3. somnambulant
  4. somnambulantly
  5. somnambulants
  6. somnambular
  7. somnambulary
  8. somnambulate
  9. somnambulated
  10. somnambulates
  11. somnambulating

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