slumbering

Speech parts

1. slumbering - Noun

2. slumbering - Adjective

3. slumbering - Verb

Meaning

of Slumber

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

out rest sleepy nappy sleep passive unconscious sleeping asleep inert inactive latent dormant dreaming sluggish
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Antonyms

active restless sleepless wakeful aware conscious
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Phrases with the word

slumbering spore

Examples

Night, sable goddess from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world. Edward Young

A drainless shower Of light is poesy: 'tis the supreme of power; 'Tis might half slumbering on its own right arm. John Keats

All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair The bees are stirring birds are on the wing And Winter slumbering in the open air, Wears on his smiling face a dream of Spring And I the while, the sole unbusy thing, Nor honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor sing. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

We all have slumbering realms of sensibility which can be coaxed into wakefulness by books. Robertson Davies

We seem to move on a thin crust which may at any moment be rent by the subterranean forces slumbering below. James Frazer

A drunken man, when asleep, is better left alone. [Let a slumbering evil rest where it is.]. Latin Proverb

Close letter words and terms

slumbercoach slumberer slumberful slumbering spore slumberingly slumberland