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#49179 12/02/01 05:48 AM
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Can anyone think of a word that relates to sleep as posthumous relates to death? I'm looking for a more elegant way to say after one has gone to sleep, or while one is asleep.


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morphetic, somnolent, soporiferous


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In an important conference.
(Sorry, couldn't help it! )

I do like soporiferous...[yawn].




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Asleep = "In the arms of Morpheous."

Morpheous = god of sleep
That's about as elegant as it gets!
There is also one called Hypnos but I am a Morpheous fan myself.


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Old, but meaningful:long sleep.


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Is soporific confined to aids that put you to sleep? (Jackie, faculty meetings are soporifics.)

Inelegant:

The Rack Monster
Out like a light
Dead to this world
Unconscious
Dreaming
Riding a nightmare
Hibernating
Dozing
Sawin' Zzzzz's
Mr. Sandman (send me a dream..bum, bum, bum, bum...--good ol' song)'
Winkin, Blinkin and Nod
Nodding (especially fun to observe in symphony concerts until the snores come marching in)
Snoozin'
Spooning (now that's the best of 'em)

Interesting to consider how few words I can generate about sleep. Maybe we don't have many.

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torpor, torpid


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a word that relates to sleep as posthumous relates to death

1 born after the father‘s death
2 published after the author‘s death
3 arising or continuing after one‘s death


re-incarnate
redivivus


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subdreamonic? (I think I just coined it)


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You naughty boy![One hand on hip, finger shaking-e] You know that Miscellany is where you need to go to coin words. Shame on you!and rolling on the floor, too!


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