Word Meanings - SLEEPY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Drowsy; inclined to, or overcome by, sleep. Shak. She waked her sleepy crew. Dryden. 2. Tending to induce sleep; soporiferous; somniferous; as, a sleepy drink or potion. Chaucer. 3. Dull; lazy; heavy; sluggish. Shak. 'Tis not sleepy business;

Additional info about word: SLEEPY

1. Drowsy; inclined to, or overcome by, sleep. Shak. She waked her sleepy crew. Dryden. 2. Tending to induce sleep; soporiferous; somniferous; as, a sleepy drink or potion. Chaucer. 3. Dull; lazy; heavy; sluggish. Shak. 'Tis not sleepy business; But must be looked to speedily and strongly. Shak. 4. Characterized by an absence of watchfulness; as, sleepy security. Sleepy duck , the ruddy duck.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SLEEPY)

• Drowsy
• Heavy
• drooping
• sleepy
• dozy
• comatose
• torpid
• stupid
• somnolent
• Somnolent
• Sleepy
• drowsy
• dreamy

Related words: (words related to SLEEPY)

• DROOPER
  One who, or that which, droops.
• DROWSY
  1. Inclined to drowse; heavy with sleepiness; lethargic; dozy. "When I am drowsy." Shak. Dapples the drowsy east with spots of gray. Shak. To our age's drowsy blood Still shouts the inspiring sea. Lowell. 2. Disposing to sleep; lulling; soporific.
• DROOPINGLY
  In a drooping manner.
• STUPIDITY
  1. The quality or state of being stupid; extreme dullness of perception or understanding; insensibility; sluggishness. 2. Stupor; astonishment; stupefaction. A stupidity Past admiration strikes me, joined with fear. Chapman.
• HEAVY-HEADED
  Dull; stupid. "Gross heavy-headed fellows." Beau. & Fl.
• TORPIDITY
  See TORPIDNESS
• TORPIDLY
  In a torpid manner.
• STUPID
  1. Very dull; insensible; senseless; wanting in understanding; heavy; sluggish; in a state of stupor; -- said of persons. O that men . . . should be so stupid grown . . . As to forsake the living God! Milton. With wild surprise, A moment stupid,
• COMATOSE
  Relating to, or resembling, coma; drowsy; lethargic; as, comatose sleep; comatose fever.
• TORPIDNESS
  The qualityy or state of being torpid.
• HEAVY-ARMED
  Wearing heavy or complete armor; carrying heavy arms.
• DREAMY
  Abounding in dreams or given to dreaming; appropriate to, or like, dreams; visionary. "The dreamy dells." Tennyson.
• SLEEPY
  1. Drowsy; inclined to, or overcome by, sleep. Shak. She waked her sleepy crew. Dryden. 2. Tending to induce sleep; soporiferous; somniferous; as, a sleepy drink or potion. Chaucer. 3. Dull; lazy; heavy; sluggish. Shak. 'Tis not sleepy business;
• TORPID
  1. Having lost motion, or the power of exertion and feeling; numb; benumbed; as, a torpid limb. Without heat all things would be torpid. Ray. 2. Dull; stupid; sluggish; inactive. Sir M. Hale.
• DROOP
  1. To hang bending downward; to sink or hang down, as an animal, plant, etc., from physical inability or exhaustion, want of nourishment, or the like. "The purple flowers droop." "Above her drooped a lamp." Tennyson. I saw him ten days before he
• HEAVY
  Having the heaves.
• SLEEPYHEAD
  The ruddy duck. (more info) 1. A sleepy person. To bed, to bed, says Sleepyhead. Mother Goose.
• HEAVY SPAR
  Native barium sulphate or barite, -- so called because of its high specific gravity as compared with other non-metallic minerals.
• HEAVY-HADED
  Clumsy; awkward.
• SOMNOLENT
  Sleepy; drowsy; inclined to sleep. -- Som"no*lent*ly, adv. He had no eye for such phenomens, because he had a somnolent want of interest in them. De Quincey. (more info) sleep, akin to Gr. svapna sleep, dream, svap to sleep, Icel. sofa,
• TOP-HEAVY
  Having the top or upper part too heavy for the lower part. Sir H. Wotton.
• OVERHEAVY
  Excessively heavy.