MEANING
Sleepy, drowsy, or tending to lull someone toward sleep.
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- slumbrous eyes
- a slumbrous afternoon
- slumbrous warmth
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Slumbrous warmth gathered beneath the low ceiling while the rain kept its slow rhythm.
He lifted slumbrous eyes from the chair when the latch moved.
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- slumbrous
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Primary category: gothic. Forms: Comparative more slumbrous; superlative most slumbrous where natural. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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