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sleepy
[ slee-pee ]
adjective
- ready or inclined to sleep; drowsy.
Synonyms: slumberous, somnolent, tired
- of or showing drowsiness.
- languid; languorous:
a sleepy gesture.
- lethargic; sluggish:
a sleepy brook.
- quiet:
a sleepy village.
- inducing sleep; soporific:
sleepy warmth.
sleepy
/ ˈsliːpɪ /
adjective
- inclined to or needing sleep; drowsy
- characterized by or exhibiting drowsiness, sluggishness, etc
- conducive to sleep; soporific
- without activity or bustle
a sleepy town
Derived Forms
- ˈsleepily, adverb
- ˈsleepiness, noun
Other Words From
- sleepi·ly adverb
- sleepi·ness noun
- un·sleepy adjective
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
The heat of the day was making me sleepy, so I opened my windows and turned up my music, intending to stop at the next pullout to take a nap and revive myself before continuing.
They also make people sleepy, reduce pain and make people feel good.
Rapid growth has strained resources in the sleepy, rural town, and RV camps—which locals refer to as “man camps”—have been set up for oil workers and their families.
These top athletes have tricks to get even the sleepiest out of bed for an outing you won’t regret.
Even when Redfield was allowed to speak publicly, his sleepy eyes and soft, droning tone anesthetized listeners.
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.
It turned out that I had dozens of sleep interruptions during the night, which likely caused me to feel sleepy in the morning.
Sondershausen is a dreamy, sleepy place, with so little life about it that you hardly realize there are any people there at all.
He ate as many as he wanted and then, as he always felt sleepy after he had eaten, he thought he would lie down and have a nap.
Her eyes gleamed bright and intense, with no sleepy shadows, as they looked into his.
So, although he was tired and sleepy from the excitement of the day, he began to tell of his visit to Manila when a young man.
Not a word was spoken, for the driver had grown sleepy, and Sikes was in no mood to lead him into conversation.
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