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dreamlessly

dreamlessly

1 7.0
Sleeping without seeing anything in their head
  • adverb
  • /ˈdriːm.ləs.li/
: sin soñar
  • After a long day, he fell asleep and slept dreamlessly until morning.
  • slept dreamlessly

Examples

  • During the flight, he dozed off and slumbered dreamlessly for hours.

  • Now he slept dreamlessly through the heat of the day until evening.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • I slept dreamlessly, but woke suddenly in the middle of the night, knowing something was wrong.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • On this afternoon she finally did it without once braking or once losing the beat on the radio... she was exhilarated, and that night she slept dreamlessly.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • The child was so tired that she slept dreamlessly through the entire night.

Antonyms

dreaming
14 1.2

Seeing images or feelings in your mind while you sleep

Surface Forms

dreamlessly positive

Morphology

dreamlessly = dreamless (transparent) = dream + less + ly

Formed by the adjective 'dreamless' (dream + -less) with the productive adverbial suffix '-ly', so the meaning is directly derived.

Etymology

The word dreamlessly comes from dream and the endings -less and -ly, where -less means 'without', like in hopeless. So, dreamlessly can mean sleeping 'without dreams'.