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SLEEPY
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Irregular inflected forms: sleepier , sleepiest
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Ready to fall asleep
Example:
sleepyheaded students
Synonyms:
sleepy; sleepy-eyed; sleepyheaded
Classified under:
Similar:
asleep (in a state of sleep)
Derivation:
sleep (a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended)
sleepiness (a very sleepy state)
Context examples:
"What in the world are those girls about now?" thought Laurie, opening his sleepy eyes to take a good look, for there was something rather peculiar in the appearance of his neighbors.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Nor would he allow anyone to leave the inn till he had drunk himself sleepy and reeled off to bed.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
The Overactive Bladder Questionnaire (OAB-q) Caused you to feel drowsy or sleepy during the day?
(OAB-q - Feel Drowsy or Sleepy During the Day, NCI Thesaurus)
It can make you sleepy, confused and clumsy.
(Hypothermia, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
I slept about eight hours, as I was afterwards assured; and it was no wonder, for the physicians, by the emperor’s order, had mingled a sleepy potion in the hogsheads of wine.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Narcolepsy is a disorder that makes people feel excessively sleepy during the day and sometimes experience changes reminiscent of REM sleep, like loss of muscle tone in the limbs and hallucinations.
(The brain may actively forget during dream sleep, National Institutes of Health)
Signs of dehydration in babies and young children include a dry mouth and tongue, crying without tears, no wet diapers for 3 hours or more, a high fever and being unusually sleepy or drowsy.
(Dehydration, NIH)
Her eyes were too heavy to suggest more than a hint of the sleepy surprise that perplexed her as she looked up at me, and she half stumbled, half tottered, as I led her to her cabin.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
But especially he loved to run in the dim twilight of the summer midnights, listening to the subdued and sleepy murmurs of the forest, reading signs and sounds as man may read a book, and seeking for the mysterious something that called—called, waking or sleeping, at all times, for him to come.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Sleepy old brother Athanasius, at the porter's cell, had a fleeting vision of twinkling feet and flying skirts; but before he had time to rub his eyes the recreant had passed the lodge, and was speeding as fast as his sandals could patter along the Lyndhurst Road.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
