Drowsy
['draʊzɪ] or ['draʊzi]
Definition
(adj.) showing lack of attention or boredom; 'the yawning congregation' .
(adj.) 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' .
Edited by Erna--From WordNet
Definition
(superl.) Inclined to drowse; heavy with sleepiness; lethargic; dozy.
(superl.) Disposing to sleep; lulling; soporific.
(superl.) Dull; stupid.
Typed by Carlyle
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Sleepy, dozy.[2]. Lethargic, comatose, stupid.[3]. Soporific, lulling.
Inputed by Katrina
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Heavy, drooping, sleepy, dozy, comatose, torpid, stupid, somnolent
ANT:Light, vigilant, alert, awake
Inputed by Addie
Examples
- Yes, yes--I own it, she cried under her breath, with a drowsy fervour of manner and tone which was quite peculiar to her. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Feeling also very faint and drowsy, I soon lay down on the sofa again and fell asleep. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- New mills, when erected, were provided with this system, and many mills in their quiet retreats everywhere awoke from their drowsy methods and were equipped with the new one. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- I was feeling drowsy and stupid, partly from my dinner and also from the effects of a long day's work. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- At any rate, you called to him in a strange, drowsy voice. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Ay,' murmured the sick woman, relapsing into her former drowsy state, 'what about her? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Here I sit at the desk again, on a drowsy summer afternoon. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- A calm enjoyment of a calm existence beamed in drowsy smiles on her plump, placid face. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- How still and lonely the house is in the drowsy evening quiet! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- 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. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Mr Dolls, collapsing in the drowsiest manner after his late intellectual triumph, replied: 'Threepenn'orth Rum. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
Edited by Josie