Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Ready for or needing sleep.
- adj. Sluggish from sleep.
- adj. Inducing sleep.
- adj. Inactive; quiet: a sleepy rural town.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Overcome with sleep; sleeping.
- Inclined to sleep; drowsy.
- Languid; dull; inactive; sluggish.
- Tending to induce sleep; sleep-producing; soporific.
- Decaying internally: said of fruit. See blet, v. i.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Drowsy; inclined to, or overcome by, sleep.
- adj. Tending to induce sleep; soporiferous; somniferous.
- adj. Dull; lazy; heavy; sluggish.
- adj. Characterized by an absence of watchfulness.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. ready to fall asleep
Examples
“This has been an eventful week in sleepy little Lerdo.”
“I'm so sleepy, is this contest still going on, has billary claimed to be the president yet by default?”
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“Remember, The generally accepted thing about the tryptophan in turkey making you sleepy is a myth.”
“As a resident of B-o-S, I think you have captured an accurate tale of life in sleepy Burnham.”
“I would be more concerned about her ripping it out all makeshift Tracheotomy-style in sleepy grumpy rage.”
“A few burglaries is hardly a "spree" but a few here in sleepy Wallingford caused one of the town fathers to give a short speech at the recent meeting.”
“And now I'm kinda sleepy, which is good ... twas my intention.”
“Recalling the sleepy countryside surrounding Chaz Braden's estate, he couldn't imagine there being much of a police force there.”
Mortal Remains
“He called a sleepy crow out of one of the trees around them; it landed on his wrist.”
Harpist in the Wind
“The bellboy of the Welcome Hotel has invented an ingenious system of calling sleepy guests.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘sleepy’.
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Adjectives with 2 syllables that end in -y
angry, bossy, busy, chilly, cheesy, creepy, dirty, early, funny, hairy, happy, healthy and 126 more...
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Y
What a -Y does to an otherwise common, dull word
zany, waxy, wavy, arty, chewy, bony, boxy, cozy, nosy, foxy, wiry, junky and 321 more...
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All Tuckered Out
Fun ways to say you're tired
exhausted, pooped, beat, sleepy, dog tired, slumbrous, bone weary, dopey, exhausticated, staggering, fatigated, fatigue and 4 more...
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I am : tired
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tired, weary, sleepy, exhausted, soporific, droopy, snooze, nap, dead-beat, shuteye, rinsed, groggy and 9 more...
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Day to Day
Words that I use too often
folks, generally, originally, fabulous, fantastic, knock, retarded, absolutely, risk, sleepy
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