slumbrous

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   drowsy, sleepy, or suggestive of sleep

   He answered in a slumbrous voice without opening his eyes.

2. 2
   adj

   quiet, still, and tranquil in a sleep-like way

   A slumbrous silence settled over the village at noon.

A shortened variant of slumberous, formed from slumber + -ous. Slumber came through Middle English from an uncertain Germanic source and means light sleep; slumbrous is chiefly literary.

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