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Meaning of Morphean | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2
/mɔːˈfiːən/

Definitions

Pertaining to Morpheus; sleepy, soporific, oneiric.

literary

Examples

“Then by the bed-side, where the faded moon / Made a dim, silver twilight, soft he set / A table, and, half anguish'd, threw thereon / A cloth of woven crimson, gold and jet:— / O for some drowsy Morphean amulet!”
“The laird did not awake in any reasonable time; for, he being overcome with fatigue and wassail, his sleep became sounder, and his Morphean measures more intense.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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