slept
verb
simple past tense and past participle of sleep.
underslept
-
a word derived from
slept.
Example Sentences
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Carl Webb has been underslept and over-stressed recently, but he’s got a plan.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
Adams arrived in a fancy new coach, bewigged and be-ruffled but looking underslept and out of sorts.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 19, 2021
Experimenting with procrastination and staying up late are very typical at this age, so if their grades are acceptable and they aren’t seriously underslept, I’d leave it be.
From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2020
A chronically underslept Reform Jew, I usually dozed through the sermon.
From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2016
THE Easter vacation was ended and four hundred overfed, underslept boys had returned to spread the germs of measles, mumps and tonsilitis among their fellows.
From Skippy Bedelle His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World by Ernest Fuhr
