drowsy

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
drowsy
    adj 1: half asleep; "made drowsy by the long ride"; "it seemed a
           pity to disturb the drowsing (or dozing) professor"; "a
           tired dozy child"; "the nodding (or napping) grandmother
           in her rocking chair" [syn: {drowsy}, {drowsing(a)},
           {dozy}]
    2: showing lack of attention or boredom; "the yawning
       congregation" [syn: {drowsy}, {oscitant}, {yawning(a)}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Drowsy \Drow"sy\, a. [Compar. {Drowsier}; superl. {Drowsiest}.]
   1. Inclined to drowse; heavy with sleepiness; lethargic;
      dozy. "When I am drowsy." --Shak.
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            Dapples the drowsy east with spots of gray. --Shak.
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            To our age's drowsy blood
            Still shouts the inspiring sea.       --Lowell.
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   2. Disposing to sleep; lulling; soporific.
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            The drowsy hours, dispensers of all good.
                                                  --Tennyson.
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   3. Dull; stupid. " Drowsy reasoning." --Atterbury.

   Syn: Sleepy; lethargic; dozy; somnolent; comatose; dull
        heavy; stupid.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
64 Moby Thesaurus words for "drowsy":
      anesthetized, appeasing, calming, cataleptic, comatose, cradling,
      doped, dozy, dreamy, drugged, drugged with sleep, gentling, groggy,
      half asleep, heavy, heavy with sleep, heavy-eyed, hushing,
      in a stupor, lackadaisical, languid, languorous, lazy, lethargic,
      listless, lulling, mollifying, napping, narcoleptic, narcose,
      narcotized, narcous, nodding, oscitant, out of it, pacifying,
      quietening, restful, rocking, sedated, sleep-drowned, sleep-drunk,
      sleep-filled, sleep-swollen, sleepful, sleepy, sluggish,
      slumberous, slumbery, snoozy, somnolent, soothful, soothing,
      soporific, stilling, stretchy, stuporose, stuporous, tired, torpid,
      tranquilizing, weary, yawning, yawny

    

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