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slumberous

/sluhm-ber-uhs, sluhm-bruhs/US // ˈslʌm bər əs, ˈslʌm brəs //UK // (ˈslʌmbərəs, -brəs) //

沉睡的,沉睡的人,沉睡,沉睡中的人

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : sleepy; heavy with drowsiness, as the eyelids.
    • : causing or inducing sleep.
    • : pertaining to, characterized by, or suggestive of slumber.
    • : inactive or sluggish; calm or quiet.

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Examples

  • There is a slumberous Southern fire in the Mexican girls' eyes and love.

  • At nightfall the village and its surrounding meadows soon become slumberous.

  • The sun had been shining in their eyes, and the place looked very slumberous in the white hazy glory of a northern day.

  • A solemn slumberous reverberation heard at intervals split the dull general roar apart.

  • Eustacia's manner was as a rule of a slumberous sort, her passions being of the massive rather than the vivacious kind.