Thesaurus:sleepy
English
Adjective
Sense: sleepy, tired, needing rest
Synonyms
- adrowse
- bedroomy
- dozy
- dragging one's tail
- drowsy
- eyelids at half-mast
- nodding off
- oscitant
- out of steam
- sleepbound (poetic)
- sleepish
- sleepy
- slombry (obsolete)
- snoozy
- slumberful (poetic)
- slumberous
- slumbersome
- slumbery
- somniculous (obsolete)
- somnolent
- somnolescent
- tired
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Further reading
- “683. inactivity” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “sleepy” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.