Drowsily

adv

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Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In a drowsy manner.

    "She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realizing that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky."

Adverb
  1. 1
    in a drowsy manner wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
somnolentlysomnolently

Example

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"I slept drowsily with a good feeling for about 2 hours, while rocked by the train."

Etymology

From drowsy + -ly.

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