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somnambulistically

somnambulistically adverb: in somnambulistic fashion; as if sleepwalking.

Adverb

somnambulistically (comparative more somnambulistically, superlative most somnambulistically)

  1. In somnambulistic fashion; as if sleepwalking.
    • Robert Loo sat and listened behind his counter, his heart aching, his eyes staring at nothing, while his brothers cheerfully clopped around, occasionally calling to the kitchen, as customers drifted somnambulistically in.1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 569
    • When she isn’t tending to the corpselike patrons of the fashionable beauty parlor that employs her, she’s dodging the advances of a perfectly nice young man (John Fraser), arguing with her older sister and roommate, Helen (Yvonne Furneaux), about the unwelcome overnight presence of Helen’s lover...2009 July 26, Dave Kehr, “A Woman Repulsed, a Man Convulsed”, in New York Times

Forms of somnambulistically

comparativemore somnambulistically
superlativemost somnambulistically

Origin of somnambulistically

From somnambulistic + -ally.

Questions about somnambulistically

What does somnambulistically mean?
Somnambulistically means in somnambulistic fashion; as if sleepwalking.
What part of speech is somnambulistically?
Somnambulistically is an adverb.

Words near somnambulistically in the dictionary

  1. somnambulising
  2. somnambulism
  3. somnambulisms
  4. somnambulist
  5. somnambulistic
  6. somnambulistically
  7. somnambulists
  8. somnambulize
  9. somnambulized
  10. somnambulizes
  11. somnambulizing

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