Synonyms for somnolent
- adjective
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Sleepy — drowsy or sleepy
sleepy, drowsy, dozy, dopey, slumbery, slumberous, snoozy informal, oscitant, sleepful, adrowse, somnolescent, sleepish, slumbersome, slumberful formal, sleepbound formal, bedroomy, languid, somniculous dated
2. Soporific — causing literal or figurative sleepiness
Other
Definitions
- adj. 1
Drowsy or sleepy.
- adj. 2
Causing literal or figurative sleepiness.
Related words
- Word family
- somnolently
Example sentences
- sleepy Refresh yourself with a cup of coffee when sleepy.
- drowsy Nemesio had gotten drowsy rocking the baby shrews.
- dopey Tom often has a dopey expression on his face.
- dreamy She was so dreamy that no one dared to approach her.
By length
- 4 letters
- dozy
- 5 letters
- dopey2
- 6 letters
- sleepy2, dreamy2, drowsy2, snoozy
- 7 letters
- languid2, adrowse
- 8 letters
- hypnotic3, slumbery, oscitant, sleepful, sleepish, bedroomy
- 9 letters
- soporific
- 10 letters
- slumberous, slumberful, sleepbound
- 11 letters
- slumbersome, somniculous, somniferous
- 12 letters
- somnolescent
- 14 letters
- hypersomnolent
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (dopey2 = 2 syllables).