somnolent

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈsɒmnələnt/    美 /ˈsɑːmnələnt/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Drowsy or sleepy.
    — One minute she was gazing at a mockup of a space capsule, safely surrounded by old, somnolent men; […]
  2. Causing literal or figurative sleepiness. dated
    — As she reached toward the last few fiddleheads growing on the second hummock, her hand froze. She heard the somnolent buzzing of flies again.

词形变化

more somnolent comparative most somnolent superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
hypersomnolent insomnolent semisomnolent somnolently

词源

First attested in 1615. Borrowed from French somnolent, from Old French sompnolent, from Latin somnolentus, from somnus (“sleep”).
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