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somniferously

somniferously adverb: in a somniferous way.

Adverb

somniferously (comparative more somniferously, superlative most somniferously)

  1. In a somniferous way.
    • While, leaders of the wheat, a row / Of Poppies, gaudily declaiming, / Like Counsellor O'Bric and Co., / Stand forth, somniferously flaming!1827, Thomas Moore, “Corn and Catholics”, in The poetical works of Thomas Moore
    • Shortly afterwards the effects of exertion and the glass combined operated so somniferously on the upper works of Scroggy, that he laid down his head and went to sleep.1906, Henry Downes Miles, Pugilistica: The History of British Boxing Containing Lives of the Most Celebrated Pugilists

Forms of somniferously

comparativemore somniferously
superlativemost somniferously

Origin of somniferously

From somniferous + -ly.

Questions about somniferously

What does somniferously mean?
Somniferously means in a somniferous way.
What part of speech is somniferously?
Somniferously is an adverb.

Words near somniferously in the dictionary

  1. somniculous
  2. somnifacient
  3. somnifacients
  4. somniferosity
  5. somniferous
  6. somniferously
  7. somniferousness
  8. somnific
  9. somnificity
  10. somnified
  11. somnifies

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