somnolent : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: somnolent	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for somnolent
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
somnolent adj inclined to or marked by drowsiness; "slumberous (or slumbrous) eyes"; "`slumbery' is archaic"; "the sound had a somnolent effect" Synonym(s): slumberous, slumbery, slumbrous, somnolent
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Somnolent \Som"nolent\, a. [F. somnolent, L. somnolentus, from somnus sleep, akin to Gr. [?], Skr. svapna sleep, dream, svap to sleep, Icel. sofa, AS. swefn sleep. Cf. {Hypnotic}, {Somnambulism}, {Soporific}.] Sleepy; drowsy; inclined to sleep. -- {Som"nolently}, adv. He had no eye for such phenomens, because he had a somnolent* want of interest in them. --De Quincey.