'Sleepy' definitions:
Definition of 'sleepy'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Ready to fall asleep; "beginning to feel sleepy"; "a sleepy-eyed child with drooping eyelids"; "sleepyheaded students" [syn: sleepy, sleepy-eyed, sleepyheaded]
Definition of 'Sleepy'
From: GCIDE
- Sleepy \Sleep"y\, a. [Compar. Sleepier; superl. Sleepiest.] [AS. sl?pig. See Sleep, n.]
- 1. Drowsy; inclined to, or overcome by, sleep. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- She waked her sleepy crew. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Tending to induce sleep; soporiferous; somniferous; as, a sleepy drink or potion. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Dull; lazy; heavy; sluggish. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 'Tis not sleepy business; But must be looked to speedily and strongly. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Characterized by an absence of watchfulness; as, sleepy security. [1913 Webster]
- Sleepy duck (Zool.), the ruddy duck. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'sleepy'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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