sleepwalking

adjective

Definition of sleepwalkingnext
as in somnambulant

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  1. somnambulant
  2. comatose
  3. semiconscious
Adjective
  • Later Clay sits handcuffed in the back of a police cruiser when the cops stop a mute, possibly somnambulant woman who has three vertical eye slits in her face.
    Ed Park, The New York Review of Books, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Baseball, too, has plenty of somnambulant qualities: hitters stepping out of the box; the hum of a summer crowd; the snap of the ball in a catcher’s mitt; the muffled screaming as the Pirates concede another season.
    Jason Gay, WSJ, 20 June 2022
Definition of somnambulant
Adjective
  • As Matt, a passive husband and father who discovers his comatose wife had been having an affair, Clooney exudes a naked vulnerability that in some ways is meant to be pathetic.
    Will Leitch, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2024
  • His doctor gave him a cortisone shot during the comatose period and his doctor sent him home.
    Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 10 Dec. 2024
Definition of comatose
Adjective
  • On June 29, another Texas man was found semiconscious on the River Trail halfway between Silver Bridge and Black Bridge near Phantom Ranch.
    Alexis Simmerman, Austin American-Statesman, 9 July 2024
  • On the evening of June 29, another Texas man was found semiconscious before becoming unresponsive and dying along the River Trail near the bottom of the canyon.
    Coleby Phillips, The Arizona Republic, 10 July 2024
Definition of semiconscious
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