somnambulant means walking as if, or while, asleep; sleepwalking. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 88 out of 100.
Why this word is great
SOMNAMBULANT — [Adjective] Walking as if, or while, asleep; pertaining to or characteristic of sleepwalking. From Latin somnus ("sleep") + ambulō ("to walk") + the English adjectival suffix -ant. Unlike "dormant," which describes a state of inert suspension, or "noctambulant," which merely specifies nocturnal motion, somnambulant denotes the eerie paradox of directed action severed from conscious will. It is the slow, open-eyed glide down a moonlit hallway, the baffling, mechanical precision of a hand opening a locked door, or the perfect, untraceable navigation of a familiar staircase by touch alone—a portrait of the body as a faithful automaton for a mind that is utterly, profoundly elsewhere.
adj
- Walking as if, or while, asleep; sleepwalking.“Hopeless lost souls of hell, trudging through a decaying shitstream of traffic, wandering, somnambulant herds of the damned, […]”