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DROWSY
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Irregular inflected forms: drowsier , drowsiest
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Showing lack of attention or boredom
Example:
the yawning congregation
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Similar:
inattentive (showing a lack of attention or care)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Half asleep
Example:
the nodding (or napping) grandmother in her rocking chair
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Similar:
asleep (in a state of sleep)
Derivation:
drowse (a light fitful sleep)
drowsiness (a very sleepy state)
Context examples:
Fire produces poisonous gases that make you disoriented and drowsy.
(Fires, Federal Emergency Management Agency)
Besides, they were snarling all the time, and his benumbed and drowsy senses no longer took note of changing pitch and intensity.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
A grove of pines covered one part of it, and from the heart of this green spot came a clearer sound than the soft sigh of the pines or the drowsy chirp of the crickets.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
I wrote two more articles and then, feeling more drowsy than ever, I rose and walked up and down the room to stretch my legs.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Here I sit at the desk again, on a drowsy summer afternoon.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Then she lost herself in drowsy contemplation of the soothing balm of his strength: Life poured from the ends of his fingers, driving the pain before it, or so it seemed to her, until with the easement of pain, she fell asleep and he stole away.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
In time my eyes gradually shut up; and, from seeming to hear the clergyman singing a drowsy song in the heat, I hear nothing, until I fall off the seat with a crash, and am taken out, more dead than alive, by Peggotty.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Mr. Spenlow being a little drowsy after the champagne—honour to the soil that grew the grape, to the grape that made the wine, to the sun that ripened it, and to the merchant who adulterated it!—and being fast asleep in a corner of the carriage, I rode by the side and talked to Dora.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
