Sleepy - English meaning

adjective

Relating to or in a state of coma.

Usage examples:

She had been comatose for seven months

adjective

(of a person) unconscious and not able to wake up, usually because of illness or injury

Usage examples:

The traffic accident left him comatose with massive brain damage.

adjective

Stupefied by sleep or a drug.

Usage examples:

She was under sedation and a bit dopey

adjective

Wanting to sleep, because or as if you have taken a drug

Usage examples:

He had taken a sleeping tablet the night before and still felt dopey., he's nice, but a bit dopey.

adjective

Feeling drowsy and lazy.

Usage examples:

He grew dozy at the end of a long day

adjective

Tired and wanting to sleep

Usage examples:

Drinking a beer at lunchtime makes me feel dozy all afternoon., he'd have driven straight into me i…

adjective

Sleepy and lethargic; half asleep.

Usage examples:

The wine had made her drowsy

adjective

Feeling sleepy esp. when it is not the usual time to sleep

Usage examples:

The room is so warm it’s making me drowsy.

adjective

Drained of energy or vitality.

Usage examples:

Daniel felt too enervated to resist

verb

Make (someone) feel drained of energy or vitality.

Usage examples:

The heat enervated us all

verb

Past simple and past participle of enervate

adjective

Not engaging in or involving any or much physical activity.

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An inactive lifestyle

adjective

Doing nothing

Usage examples:

Knee surgery will keep him physically inactive for two months., about half of the club members are …

adjective

Doing nothing or not doing what you have usually done

Usage examples:

An inactive member of an advisory board, voters who have not participated in an election in three y…

adjective

(of a person, manner, or gesture) having or showing a disinclination for physical exertion or effort.

Usage examples:

His languid demeanour irritated her

adjective

Lacking energy, or causing a lack of energy or enthusiasm

Usage examples:

He sat on the porch enjoying the delicious, languid warmth of a summer afternoon.

adjective

Characterized by tiredness or inactivity, especially of a pleasurable kind.

Usage examples:

Summer has a slow, languorous feel to it here

adjective

Affected by lethargy; sluggish and apathetic.

Usage examples:

I felt tired and a little lethargic

adjective

Lacking in energy; feeling unwilling or unable to do anything

verb

Lower and raise one's head slightly and briefly, especially in greeting, assent, or understanding, or to give someone a signal.

Usage examples:

He looked around for support and everyone nodded

noun

An act of nodding the head.

Usage examples:

At a nod from his father he left the room

Present participle of nod

adjective

Yawning from drowsiness.

Usage examples:

Rising up in oscitant mood, i swallowed a penny piece, which i had between my teeth, and then went …

adjective

Slow-moving or inactive.

Usage examples:

A sluggish stream

adjective

Sleepy; drowsy.

Usage examples:

My thesaurus lists all these unattractive equivalents indolent, somnolent, lumpish, torpid, slack, …

adjective

Almost sleeping, or causing sleep

Usage examples:

A somnolent summer's afternoon, the somnolent villages further north

adjective

In need of sleep or rest; weary.

Usage examples:

Fisher rubbed his tired eyes

verb

Feel or cause to feel in need of rest or sleep.

Usage examples:

Soon the ascent grew steeper and he began to tire

adjective

Mentally or physically inactive; lethargic.

Usage examples:

We sat around in a torpid state

plural noun

(at oxford university) a series of races for eight-oared rowing boats held in hilary term.

Usage examples:

In my first year i rowed in torpids

adjective

Not active; moving or thinking slowly, especially as a result of being lazy or feeling that you want to sleep

Usage examples:

If you have a sudden loss of cabin pressure at 20,000 feet, passengers will become torpid and then …

adjective

(of an opening or space) very large and wide.

Usage examples:

The yawning entrance of the cave

noun

The reflex action of opening the mouth wide and inhaling deeply due to tiredness or boredom.

Usage examples:

Yawning is so contagious that we only need to read about it to want to yawn ourselves

verb

Involuntarily open one's mouth wide and inhale deeply due to tiredness or boredom.

Usage examples:

He began yawning and looking at his watch

adjective

Characterized by or producing yawning.

Usage examples:

I am incredibly tired and yawny