sleepy
Americanadjective
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ready or inclined to sleep; drowsy.
- Synonyms:
- slumberous, somnolent, tired
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of or showing drowsiness.
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languid; languorous.
a sleepy gesture.
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lethargic; sluggish.
a sleepy brook.
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quiet.
a sleepy village.
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inducing sleep; soporific.
sleepy warmth.
adjective
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inclined to or needing sleep; drowsy
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characterized by or exhibiting drowsiness, sluggishness, etc
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conducive to sleep; soporific
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without activity or bustle
a sleepy town
Other Word Forms
- sleepily adverb
- sleepiness noun
- unsleepy adjective
Etymology
Origin of sleepy
Example Sentences
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There were no potted histories, no schematic definition of concepts, no leading questions to wake up sleepy students.
“You mean the sleepy man in the car out front?”
From Literature
“There are a lot of diamonds in the rough…that have sleepy management teams,” Cohen said about the retail industry.
The Ming family was one of several clans that ran Myanmar's sleepy town of Laukkaing, close to the border with China.
From BBC
In 2020, he became sector chief for the El Centro region, a sleepy California stretch considered a backwater because so few immigrants attempt to cross illegally there.
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