ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Somniferously

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adverb

Quick meaning: Somniferously is an adverb meaning In a somniferous way.

Meaning

In a somniferous way.

Example Sentences

While, leaders of the wheat, a row / Of Poppies, gaudily declaiming, / Like Counsellor O'Bric and Co., / Stand forth, somniferously flaming!
Shortly afterwards the effects of exertion and the glass combined operated so somniferously on the upper works of Scroggy, that he laid down his head and went to sleep.
Of the writers in their late forties or their fifties, some go on rather somniferously bringing out just the same kind of books that they were writing with more energy twenty years ago; and others, who have practised an intenser art and seemed to promise self-renewal, are in a state of suspended animation.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include somnolently, somnambulically, somnolescently, somnambulistically, soporiferously, sleepfully.

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