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Webster 1913 Edition
Slumbrous
Slum′brous
,Adj.
Slumberous.
Keats.
Definition 2024
slumbrous
slumbrous
English
Adjective
slumbrous (comparative more slumbrous, superlative most slumbrous)
- slumberous.
- 1794, William Blake, Introduction (Songs of Experience), lines 13-14-15
- Night is worn,
- And the morn
- Rises from the slumbrous mass.
- 1935, P. G. Wodehouse, 'Blandings Castle', Herbert Jenkins, 1957, page 179.
- When she had entered his employment a few days before, he had noticed, of course, that she had a sort of ethereal beauty; but then every girl you see in Hollywood has either ethereal beauty or roguish gaminerie or a dark, slumbrous face that hints at hidden passion.
- 1794, William Blake, Introduction (Songs of Experience), lines 13-14-15
Derived terms
- slumbrously
- slumbrousness