sleepy
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Sleepy \Sleep"y\, a. [Compar. {Sleepier}; superl. {Sleepiest}.]
[AS. sl?pig. See {Sleep}, n.]
1. Drowsy; inclined to, or overcome by, sleep. --Shak.
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She waked her sleepy crew. --Dryden.
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2. Tending to induce sleep; soporiferous; somniferous; as, a
sleepy drink or potion. --Chaucer.
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3. Dull; lazy; heavy; sluggish. --Shak.
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'Tis not sleepy business;
But must be looked to speedily and strongly. --Shak.
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4. Characterized by an absence of watchfulness; as, sleepy
security.
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{Sleepy duck} (Zool.), the ruddy duck.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
99 Moby Thesaurus words for "sleepy":
anesthetized, apathetic, asleep, beat, benumbed, blase, bored,
boring, cataleptic, comatose, dazed, dead, debilitated, doped,
dopey, dormant, dozy, dreamy, droopy, drowsy, drugged,
drugged with sleep, dull, enervated, exanimate, exhausted,
fatigued, half asleep, heavy, heavy with sleep, heavy-eyed,
hebetudinous, hypnotic, idle, in a stupor, inactive, inanimate,
inert, jaded, knocked out, lackadaisical, languid, languorous,
leaden, lethargic, lifeless, listless, lumpish, moribund, napping,
narcoleptic, narcose, narcotic, narcotized, narcous, nodding, numb,
opiate, oscitant, out, out of it, passive, phlegmatic, pooped,
quiet, sated, sedated, sleep-drowned, sleep-drunk, sleep-filled,
sleep-swollen, sleepful, sleeping, slow, sluggish, slumbering,
slumberous, slumbery, snoozy, somnifacient, somniferous, somnolent,
soporific, stagnant, stagnating, stretchy, stultified, stuporose,
stuporous, supine, tired, torpid, vegetable, vegetative, wan,
weary, world-weary, yawning, yawny
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