somnolently

1. 1.

   in a drowsy manner

   “`Time to get up,' she said drowsily”

   Synonymsdrowsily

Questions about somnolently

What does somnolently mean?

somnolently means "in a drowsy manner".

How many syllables are in somnolently?

somnolently has 4 syllables and divides as som-no-lent-ly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for somnolently?

Close synonyms include drowsily. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is somnolently a common word?

somnolently is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.