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: som-no-lent-ly. The stress falls on "no".

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.