Synonyms of slumbering

slumbering 1 of 3

adjective

as in sleeping

being in a state of suspended consciousness

made a comparison between the inattentive nation and a slumbering giant

Synonyms & Similar Words

• sleeping
• asleep
• resting
• dormant
• at rest
• napping
• dozing
• somnolent
• slumberous
• nodding
• drowsy
• dreaming
• comatose
• sleepy
• semiconscious
• hypnotized
• sleepwalking
• reposing
• somnambulant
• mesmerized

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• awake
• sleepless
• wakeful
• wide-awake
• aware
• conscious
• sleepless
• awakened
• aroused
• up
• revived
• roused
• wakened
• astir
• reawakened

slumbering

2 of 3

noun

as in slumber

a natural periodic loss of consciousness during which the body restores itself

my peaceful slumbering was interrupted by a ring of the doorbell

Synonyms & Similar Words

• slumber
• sleep
• napping
• bed
• resting
• rest
• dozing
• nap
• snoozing
• shut-eye
• catnapping
• repose
• dreaming
• doze
• catnap
• drowse
• siesta
• snooze
• z's
• wink
• forty winks
• oversleeping
• rapid eye movement

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• consciousness
• wake
• wakefulness
• insomnia
• sleeplessness

slumbering

3 of 3

verb

present participle of slumber

1

as in resting

to be in a state of sleep

she slumbered for hours while the train rolled on

Synonyms & Similar Words

• sleeping
• resting
• dozing
• napping
• snoozing
• catnapping
• dropping off
• dreaming
• hibernating
• sleeping in
• nodding off
• drowsing (off)
• oversleeping

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• rising
• waking
• arising
• arousing
• awaking

2

as in napping

to sleep lightly or briefly

slumbering restlessly in the tropical heat

Synonyms & Similar Words

• napping
• resting
• dozing
• drowsing
• snoozing
• relaxing
• lying
• catnapping
• kipping
• reposing
• lulling
• laying
• roosting
• couching

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• rising
• awakening
• arising
• uprising
• waking (up)
• arousing
• rousing
• awaking
• getting up
• wakening

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of slumbering

Adjective

Flat, slow, even sleepier than the slumbering crowd that had come to see him. — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026

The fireworks came instead from the Dodgers' slumbering offense, which awoke with Max Muncy's three-run double and Freddie Freeman's RBI single after Skubal departed. — ABC News, 11 Aug. 2026

The first murder is a girl slicing into her slumbering mother’s neck with a hacksaw; then her brother pounds his father’s face in with a baseball bat. — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 4 Aug. 2026

The shorthanded goal seemed to wake the slumbering Ducks, with Gauthier scoring on a power play 37 seconds later to halve the lead and become the first Duck with 40 goals in a season since Corey Perry in 2013-14. — Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2026

Transform a slumbering downtown into a bustling business sector. — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Mar. 2026

The supermassive black hole sitting at the heart of our galaxy is considered to be a slumbering giant. — Robert Lea, Space.com, 8 Jan. 2026

Trump revived a slumbering American electorate and drove record turnout, winning and losing; Mamdani won more votes than any modern mayor. — Ben Smith, semafor.com, 10 Nov. 2025

Along the way, the protagonist must also find a way to lift the curse on his eternally slumbering friend, who happens to be the prince. — PC Magazine, 16 Oct. 2025

Verb

In particular, the image of the sickly, slumbering child recurs throughout Marcon’s work. — Matthew McLean, Artforum, 22 Sep. 2026

The winter months pass, long nights, a bomb cyclone that buries my basement windows in snow and leaves me to lurk in the dark like a slumbering bear, and then spring arrives abrupt and clanging and golden. — Brian Laidlaw, Longreads, 1 Sep. 2026

In other words, the long-slumbering giant in the US space industry may finally be waking up. — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 6 Aug. 2026

Their football was slumbering, stuttering. — Amy Lawrence, New York Times, 31 May 2026

And amazingly, photographs of them have been slumbering in archives or circulating unidentified for almost a century. — Glenn Kurtz, Time, 28 Mar. 2026

Others showed baby Spero clasping his tiny hand around Graham's finger and slumbering with a smile on his face. — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 13 Mar. 2026

One of the men set fire to the slumbering victim’s clothes, causing a small blaze, police said. — Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 3 Mar. 2026

The world's largest acidic geyser has begun erupting again in Yellowstone after slumbering for over five years, the national park said Monday. — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 3 Mar. 2026