sleepy
adjective, sleep·i·er, sleep·i·est.
Origin of sleepy
Synonyms for sleepy
Related Words for sleepy
listless, sluggish, lethargic, drowsy, quiet, asleep, blah, comatose, dopey, heavy, hypnotic, inactive, out, sleeping, slow, somnolent, soporific, torpid, slumberous, dozyExamples from the Web for sleepy
Contemporary Examples of sleepy
The film helps to draw scores of visitors to this sleepy river town year after year.
BIRKIANI, Georgia — Time seems to stop in this sleepy Georgian village high in the green mountains of the Pankisi Gorge.
Last year Fox gifted the world with the “Legend of Sleepy Hollow” retelling we never knew we needed.
But it was a shadow of its former self: sleepy, unprofitable, and not particularly confident about its complicated past.
Pancakes and Pickaninnies: The Saga of ‘Sambo’s,’ The ‘Racist’ Restaurant Chain America Once LovedAndrew Romano
June 30, 2014
Now she is grateful for the jobs the tourist boom has brought to her once sleepy town, but admits it has taken away other jobs.
Historical Examples of sleepy
It seemed to my sleepy eyes as if an angel had melted his own door through the wall!
Weighed and WantingGeorge MacDonald
He was sleepy, that was all; but a sleepiness to fight against—he must still fight.
ThoroughbredsW. A. Fraser
The Indian, quieted by the sleepy Chestnut, was going steadier.
ThoroughbredsW. A. Fraser
When he was through with his work, it was late and he was sleepy.
DustMr. and Mrs. Haldeman-Julius
Then I grew so sleepy, that I was impatient to be shown to my bed.
Tales And Novels, Volume 4 (of 10)Maria Edgeworth