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slumberous

adjectiveCommon GRE wordMore S words

sleepy and heavy with drowsiness, or inducing sleep

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Slumberous in a sentence

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A slumberous warmth filled the sunlit room and made reading impossible.

Synonyms
drowsysleepysoporificsomnolent
Antonyms
alertwakeful

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Reviewers noted that the novelist, once known for blank prose, had pared her sentences down until scarcely a superfluous word remained.

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Slumberous (adjective) means sleepy and heavy with drowsiness, or inducing sleep
Here is slumberous used in an example sentence: "A slumberous warmth filled the sunlit room and made reading impossible."
Common synonyms for slumberous include drowsy, sleepy, soporific, somnolent.
Antonyms of slumberous include alert, wakeful.
Slumberous is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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