variants or slumbrous

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Recent Examples of slumberous Confederate monuments were not, after all, slumberous. Darryl Pinckney, The New York Review of Books, 20 Aug. 2020 All differences of excellence, of position, of form are blurred by the slumberous acceptance. Elizabeth Hardwick, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019 With the exception of the minority of people who suffer sudden death, the vast majority of us experience a slumberous slippage from life. Sara Manning Peskin, M.d., New York Times, 11 July 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for slumberous
Adjective
  • Except that four years later, on The Hills, Lauren Conrad passed it up for a guy with frosted tips and sleepy vibes.
    Megan Angelo, Glamour, 11 Sep. 2025
  • New York — Oracle, a large but generally sleepy cloud-computing company, just had an absolutely bonkers day on Wall Street.
    Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • For a generation whose existence is mostly, if not entirely, lived through devices, peering through the hypnotic glow of their phone screens at a picture-in-picture playback of the events unfolding in front of them is an extension, or even an evolution, of the experience.
    Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The film is a mess, opaque in its argument and tiring in its effortful weirdness, and yet in its best moments has a hypnotic pull.
    Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 7 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • They’re placed on or next to the body and struck with a mallet to release a calming vibration and mellifluous tone that eases muscles, sparking an immediately soothing effect on the nervous system and improving synaptic responses in the brain.
    Terry Elward, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Whatever the manifestation—hair-tucking, shorts-pulling, ball-bouncing, bobbing, pocket-checking, or something else entirely—the familiarity of these motions can have a soothing effect, calming the player’s nerves before a big shot.
    Caroline Tien, SELF, 5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • There’s nothing quite as soothing as the drowsy calmness that washes over you when your partner runs their hands through your hair.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • The DeWine administration cited driver safety as a catalyst for the project: officials noted that truck drivers who can't find a parking spot are known to drive drowsy or pull over to sleep in unsafe areas.
    Annie Goldman, The Enquirer, 31 July 2025
Adjective
  • The YouTube search results have warped into an apparent AI breeding ground, crammed with hourlong mixes full of soporific dreck.
    Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 2 July 2025
  • Prince Valiant Much of Spaceballs' plot kicks off when Daphne Zuniga's Princess Vespa runs away from her soporific betrothed, Prince Valium (the mighty Jim J. Bullock), at the altar.
    Jordan Hoffman, EW.com, 14 June 2025
Adjective
  • While there are a half-dozen or so worthy books on the list, most of them are somnolent doctoral theses that probably should not have been acquired in the first place.
    George Liebmann, Baltimore Sun, 21 May 2025
  • Alan Fox’s script is rife with clunkers (the somnolent Ilfenesh Hadera, as David’s wife Pam, explains with haunting detail which items of decor on the dining table can be moved where by the police), and the intrusive score is the equivalent of garish wall-to-wall carpeting.
    Alison Willmore, Vulture, 20 May 2025
Adjective
  • Both have been charged with first-degree murder, three counts of possession of opiate, opium, narcotic, or certain stimulant, and possession with intent to use drug paraphernalia.
    Laura Bauer, Kansas City Star, 7 Sep. 2025
  • On top of that, concerns in Washington were mounting over the trafficking of the deadly narcotic fentanyl within mail and small packages.
    Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 4 Sep. 2025

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“Slumberous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slumberous. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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