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Word of the Day for Sunday, April 26, 2009somnolent \SOM-nuh-luhnt\, adjective: 1. Sleepy; drowsy; inclined to sleep. In his case, restrained ultimately meant boring, as the audience was lulled into a somnolent state. Meanwhile, many a somnolent local authority has been stirred into action by Davidson's blunt approach. Back in the somnolent heat of Bangalore he wrote a revealing novel entitled Savrola. Somnolent is from Latin somnolentus, from somnus, "sleep." A related word is insomnia (in-, "not" + somnus). | |||||||||
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