somnambulistically
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
29
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
7
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In somnambulistic fashion; as if sleepwalking.
Example Sentences
- "Robert Loo sat and listened behind his counter, his heart aching, his eyes staring at nothing, while his brothers cheerfully clopped around, occasionally calling to the kitchen, as customers drifted somnambulistically in."
- "When she isn’t tending to the corpselike patrons of the fashionable beauty parlor that employs her, she’s dodging the advances of a perfectly nice young man (John Fraser), arguing with her older sister and roommate, Helen (Yvonne Furneaux), about the unwelcome overnight presence of Helen’s lover (Ian Hendry) or walking somnambulistically through the streets."
Etymology
From somnambulistic + -ally.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more somnambulistically (comparative)
most somnambulistically (superlative)