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Definition of Slumbrous

1. Adjective. Quiet and tranquil. "A slumberous June morning"

2. Adjective. Inclined to or marked by drowsiness. "The sound had a somnolent effect"

Definition of Slumbrous

1. a. Slumberous.

Definition of Slumbrous

1. Adjective. slumberous. ¹

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Definition of Slumbrous

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Slumbrous

slumber slumber parties slumber party slumbered slumberer slumberers slumbering slumberingly slumberland slumberless

slumberlike slumberous slumbers slumbery slumbre slumbrous (current term) slumbry slumdog slumdogs slumgullions

slumgum slumgums slumism slumisms slumlike slumlord slumlords slummed slummer

Literary usage of Slumbrous

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1849)
"Perhaps it is a good, a merciful institution, this slumbrous slate of life ! When the bear sleeps in his winter den, he knows no longings, ..."

2. The Honey-comb: Or, Nine-months by Ruth Van Saun (1920)
"... The quiet August noon has come; A slumbrous silence fills the sky; The fields are still, the woods are dumb; In glassy sleep the waters lie. Away! ..."

3. The Working Principles of Rhetoric Examined in Their Literary Relations and by John Franklin Genung (1900)
"In these stanzas we notice : (1) Epithet, — " languid air," " weary dream," " slumbrous sheet," " sunset-flush'd," " shadowy pine" ; (2) Picturing verbs, ..."

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