About The Word Drowsy
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Drowsy
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What's The Definition Of Drowsy?
[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" Synonyms | Synonyms for Drowsy: asleep(p) | dozing(a) | dozy | drowsing(a) | inattentive | napping(a) | nodding(a) | oscitant | yawning(a) Related Terms | Find terms related to Drowsy: anesthetized | appeasing | calming | cataleptic | comatose | cradling | doped | dozy | dreamy | drugged | drugged with sleep | gentling | groggy | half asleep | heavy | heavy with sleep | heavy-eyed | hushing | in a stupor | lackadaisical | languid | languorous | lazy | lethargic | listless | lulling | mollifying | napping | narcoleptic | narcose | narcotized | narcous | nodding | oscitant | out of it | pacifying | quietening | restful | rocking | sedated | sleep-drowned | sleep-drunk | sleep-filled | sleepful | sleep-swollen | sleepy | sluggish | slumberous | slumbery | snoozy | somnolent | soothful | soothing | soporific | stilling | stretchy | stuporose | stuporous | tired | torpid | tranquilizing | weary | yawning | yawny See Also | Drowsy In Webster's Dictionary \Drow"sy\, a. [Compar. {Drowsier}; superl. {Drowsiest}.]
1. Inclined to drowse; heavy with sleepiness; lethargic;
dozy. ``When I am drowsy.'' --Shak.
Dapples the drowsy east with spots of gray. --Shak.
To our age's drowsy blood Still shouts the inspiring
sea. --Lowell.
2. Disposing to sleep; lulling; soporific.
The drowsy hours, dispensers of all good.
--Tennyson.
3. Dull; stupid. `` Drowsy reasoning.'' --Atterbury.
Syn: Sleepy; lethargic; dozy; somnolent; comatose; dull
heavy; stupid.
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