Definitions for somnolent

somnolent som·no·lent

Spelling: [som-nuh-luh nt]
IPA: /ˈsɒm nə lənt/

Somnolent is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 328 anagrams from letters in somnolent (elmnnoost).

Definitions for somnolent

adjective

  1. sleepy; drowsy.
  2. tending to cause sleep.

Origin of somnolent

1425-75; late Middle English sompnolent Old French Latin somnolentus, derivative of somnus sleep; see -ulent

Examples for somnolent

As for the man on the lookout, he was notorious for his somnolent powers.

The convicts gorged him with food, and he had become fat and somnolent.

For John Endlich it was all like the echo of a somnolent summer of his boyhood.

Alnwick is a town with a great past and a somnolent present.

The whole aspect of the place was that of somnolent respectability.

Swinton avoids wheat because of its somnolent effects on her: “I was sort of falling asleep for the filming,” she says.

But there was no doubt of the somnolent state of the Puritan.

The electorate was somnolent and permitted the politician to have his way.

I cried, hurriedly, as I poked at the somnolent wretch with my cane.

Thorpe ate, his eyes half closed, in somnolent satisfaction.

Word Value for somnolent
Scrable

11

Words with friends

15

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