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slumbery

Meaning of "slumbery" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF SLUMBERY

ˈslʌmbərɪ


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SLUMBERY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Slumbery is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES SLUMBERY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of slumbery in the English dictionary

The definition of slumbery in the dictionary is sleepy, slumberous.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SLUMBERY

ambery · blackberry · blueberry · Burberry · Cadbury · canterbury · columbary · cranberry · Glastonbury · mulberry · Newbury · raspberry · robbery · Salisbury · Shrewsbury · strawberry · Sudbury · timbery · umbery · whimberry

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SLUMBERY

slumber · slumber party · slumber wear · slumberer · slumberful · slumbering · slumberingly · slumberland · slumberless · slumberous · slumberously · slumberousness · slumbersome · slumbrous · slumbrously · slumbrousness · slumgullion · slumgum · slumism · slumlord

WORDS THAT END LIKE SLUMBERY

aggravated robbery · armed robbery · bank robbery · bibbery · blubbery · bobbery · bribery · daubery · daylight robbery · fibbery · highway robbery · jobbery · nabobery · plumbery · Rosebery · rubbery · shrubbery · slabbery · slobbery · snobbery

Synonyms and antonyms of slumbery in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «slumbery» into 25 languages

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slumbery
1,325 millions of speakers
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570 millions of speakers
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510 millions of speakers
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380 millions of speakers
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280 millions of speakers
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278 millions of speakers
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slumbery
270 millions of speakers
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slumbery
260 millions of speakers
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slumbery
220 millions of speakers
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Kesesakan
190 millions of speakers
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180 millions of speakers
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130 millions of speakers
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slumbery
85 millions of speakers
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Slumbery
85 millions of speakers
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slumbery
80 millions of speakers
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slumbery
75 millions of speakers
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झोपडपट्टी
75 millions of speakers
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slumbery
70 millions of speakers
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slumbery
65 millions of speakers
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50 millions of speakers
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40 millions of speakers
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30 millions of speakers
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15 millions of speakers
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slumbery
14 millions of speakers
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slumbery
10 millions of speakers
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slumbery
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of slumbery

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SLUMBERY»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about slumbery

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SLUMBERY»

Discover the use of slumbery in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to slumbery and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Chemist & Druggist
For twenty years they had been left severely alone by that that (Professor Pix Dewar, "Vereingeiicht") yes, that was the word, that Vereingericht at Slumbery. ( Groans.) It had often been suggested that limited companies should be wiped off the ...
‎1899
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CRITICAL APPROACHES TO SHAKESPEARE: SHAKESPEARE FOR ALL TIME:
Macbeth is a tragedy where “sorriest fancies” (3.2.9), “horrible shadows” (3.4.106 ), “thick-coming fancies” (5.3.39) “perturbation in nature” (5.1.8), “slumbery agitation” (9-10) and a “rooted sorrow” in memory (5.3.42) direct the actions of the  ...
CEREZO MORENO Marta, 2014
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A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare: Macbeth
In this slumbery agitation, besides her walking and other actual performances, what, at any time, have you heard her say? 11 6871!. That, sir, which I will not report after her. Duct. You may to me, and 'tis most meet you should. Gent. Neither to ...
William Shakespeare, Horace Howard Furness, 1873
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Macbeth: Second Series
10 In this slumbery agitation, besides her walking and ACT V Scene 1 S.D. Duminane.] Capell. nature,] F; nature,-— Dyce. 4. into the field] Steevens complains that Shakespeare 'forgot he had shut up Macbeth in Dunsinane and surrounded ...
William Shakespeare, Kenneth Muir, 1984
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A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare: Macbeth. 11th ed. 1873
In this slumbery agitation, besides her walking and other actual performances, what, at any time, have you heard her say ? 11 Gent. That, sir, which I will not report after her. Doct. You may to me, and 'tis most meet you should. Gent. Neither to ...
William Shakespeare, Horace Howard Furness, 1873
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The Synonym Finder
1. groggy, sleepy, half asleep, som- Inolent, slumberous, slumbery; dozy, nodding, dozing, heavy-eyed, yawning, oscitant. 2. sluggish, torpid, lethargic, listless; otiose, lazy, slow, lackadaisical, indolent; dull, drugged, dazed, Inf. dopey ; lifeless, ...
Jerome Irving Rodale, 1978
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A fine line: new poetry from Eastern & Central Europe
SLUMBERY SLEDS Will you condemn me, burdock leaf asleep between the tracks, when you mutely reverberate with the mumbling of the day's first walkers? If suddenly you rose up, you could cover this tram stop shelter on Komicka where  ...
Jean Boase-Beier, Alexandra Büchler, Fiona Sampson, 2004
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The poetical works of John Keats
Sideway his face reposed On one white arm, and tenderly unclosed, By tenderest pressure, a faint damask mouth To slumbery pout ; just as the morning south Disparts a dew-lipp'd rose. Above his head, Four lily stalks did their white honours ...
John Keats, 1841
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The Age of Print: A Poem, Delivered Before the Phi Beta ...
It was the morning of a better day Than had yet warm'd him on his pilgrim way ; The world all slept in beauty, and the years Stole on unheeded and unstained by tears ; The clouds in quiet stoop'd, or sail'd above, And all the slumbery air was ...
Grenville Mellen, 1830
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Encyclopaedia perthensis, or, Universal dictionary of the ...
SLUMBERY. J Inviting to sleep ; sopori- ferous ; causing sleep. — The timely dew of sleep, Now falling v ith soft slumb'rous weight. Milton. While pensive in the silent slumb'rous shade, • Sleep's gentle pow'rs her drooping eyes inva Je. Pope.
‎1816

3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SLUMBERY»

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Mary Timony leading Ex Hex to Churchill's in Miami
Timony's music is seldom quiet, with fuzz-toned guitars jostling for attention with the singer's cool, slumbery vocals, melodies popping from her mouth like so ... «SouthFlorida.com, Jan 15»
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New Year 2015: best TV on today Friday 2nd January
A slumbery post-festivities round is enlivened by a shake-up in the scoring. We're playing Lucky Losers, this being Series L, so klaxons are good, clever right ... «Radio Times, Jan 15»
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ELUSIVE MOODS
However, her attempt at rather greetings-card flower studies lacked the fluent energy of, say, Paradise or the suggestive compression in Slumbery Trance. «Calcutta Telegraph, Oct 13»
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