sleepy
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Feeling a need or desire to sleep; drowsy: Describes the state of being tired and ready to fall asleep.
- Inducing sleepiness; soporific: Describes something that causes drowsiness.
- Lacking activity or liveliness; quiet and tranquil: Describes a place or atmosphere that is dull, inactive, or peaceful in a way that might induce sleep.
Examples of Usage
- Adjective:
- The warm room and the long lecture made me feel very sleepy.
- She read a sleepy story to the children at bedtime.
- It's a sleepy little village where nothing much ever happens.
Advanced Usage
"sleepy-eyed": Having eyes that look tired or half-closed from drowsiness.
- The sleepy-eyed toddler rubbed his eyes and yawned.
"sleepyhead": (Informal, often affectionate) A person, especially a child, who is sleepy or slow to wake up.
- Come on, sleepyhead, time to get out of bed!
Variants and Related Words
Sleepily (adverb): In a drowsy manner.
- He nodded sleepily in his chair.
Sleepiness (noun): The state or feeling of being sleepy.
- The medication may cause drowsiness or sleepiness.
Synonyms
- Drowsy: Ready to fall asleep.
- Somnolent: Sleepy or inducing sleep.
- Lethargic: Sluggish and apathetic, often from tiredness.
Antonyms
- Alert: Vigilant and wide-awake.
- Energetic: Showing or involving great activity or vitality.
- Wakeful: Unable to sleep; sleepless.
Related Idioms and Phrases
"Sleepy hollow": A very quiet, uneventful place. (Often capitalized as a reference to Washington Irving's story).
- After living in the city, this town feels like a sleepy hollow.
"To feel sleepy": The most common phrase to express the state of drowsiness.
- I always feel sleepy after a big lunch.
Adjective
- ready to fall asleep
- beginning to feel sleepy
- a sleepy-eyed child with drooping eyelids
- sleepyheaded students