Drowsy

Definition: Drowsy

Drowsy

Adjective

1. 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".

2. Showing lack of attention or boredom; "the yawning congregation".

Date "drowsy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1120. (references)

Note: Drowsy \Drow"sy\, adjective. [Comparative Drowsier; superlative Drowsiest.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Drowsy

Synonyms: dozing(a) (adj), dozy (adj), drowsing(a) (adj), napping(a) (adj), nodding(a) (adj), oscitant (adj), yawning(a) (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Fatigue	Adjective: fatigued, tired; Verb: weary; drowsy; drooping; Verb: haggard; toilworn, wayworn:, footsore, surbated, weather-beaten; faint; done up, used up, knocked up; bushed ; exhausted, prostrate, spent; overtired, overspent, overfatigued; unrefreshed, unrestored.
Inactivity	Sleepy, sleepful; dozy, drowsy, somnolent, torpescent, lethargic, lethargical; somnifacient; statuvolent, statuvolic; heavy, heavy with sleep; napping; somnific, somniferous; soporous, soporific, soporiferous; hypnotic; balmy, dreamy; unawakened, unawakened.
Weariness	Weary, tired; Verb: drowsy; (sleepy); uninterested, flagging, used up, worn out, blase, life-weary, weary of life; sick of.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Drowsy

English words defined with "drowsy": dozing, dozy, drowsily, drowsing ♦ Lethargical, Lungis ♦ napping, Nodder, nodding ♦ Poppied ♦ Sleepish, Somniculous, somnolently ♦ theta rhythm, theta wave. (references)

Specialty definitions using "drowsy": PEEPY. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Drowsy (reference) Ripe was the drowsy hour : the age of Oscar Wilde (reference) The Case of the Drowsy Mosquito (reference) The Drowsy Hours: Poems for Bedtime (reference) Why Do People Have Drowsy Driving Crashes: Input from Drivers Who Just Did (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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	New Baltimore was once a shipyard, but today it is a drowsy river town with its only activity summer visitors. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	The porter saw them depart as he had seen them arrive, with drowsy dismay.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		After the initial effects, abusers usually will be drowsy for several hours. (references)
		A person with hypoglycemia may feel weak, drowsy, confused, hungry, and dizzy. (references)
		Your hands or feet may swell or feel numb. You may get drowsy or have trouble concentrating. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Drowsy" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Drowsy" is used about 150 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	150	25,701

Expressions using "drowsy": be drowsy ♦ drowsy driver ♦ make drowsy. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "drowsy": drowsy-head.
	Ending with "drowsy": Non-Drowsy.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "drowsy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		topitës, që të vë në gjumë (dreamy), inaktiv, i shkrehur, i përgjumur (asleep, dopey, dopy, dormant, dozy, lethargic, sleepy, slumberous, somnolent, soporific). (various references)

Arabic		‏نعسان (heavy, sleepy, somnolent, soporific), ‏ناشئ عن نعاس. (various references)

Bulgarian		сънлив (dozy, lethargic, poppied, sleepy, slumberous, somnolent), дремлив (slumberous). (various references)

Chinese		想睡 (sleepy), 昏昏欲睡. (various references)

Czech		rozespalý, ospalý (dopey, dozy, languorous, nappy, sleepy, slumberous, somnolent, soporific), mátožný. (various references)

Danish		søvnig (sleepy). (various references)

Dutch		slaperig (sleepy), druilerig. (various references)

Esperanto		dorminklina, dormetema. (various references)

Farsi		چرت زن , کسل کننده (Drab, Irksome, Prosaic, Tedious), خواب الود (Dreamy, Heavy, Sleepy, Somnolent, Soporific). (various references)

Finnish		unelias (lethargic, sleepy). (various references)

French		somnolent. (various references)

German		schlaftrunken (half asleep), schläfrig (dozy, languorous, lethargic, lethargically, sleepily, sleepy, slumberous, slumbrous, somnolent). (various references)

Greek		νυσταλέωσ (sleepily), μισοκοιμισμένοσ. (various references)

Hebrew		מ� מ� ם, מ� ומ� ם (dozy, sleepy, somnolent), אחוז ש� �" (sleepy, somnolent), ר�"ים (sleepy, somnolent), ר�"ום (lethargic, sleepy, slumberous, somnolent, soporose), � מ� מ� י (sleepy, slumberous, slumbery), � יום (sleepy). (various references)

Hungarian		álmosító (sleepy, slumberous, slumbery, somniferous, somnolent), álmos (dozy, heavy, jog-trot, peepy, sleepy, sleepy-head, somnolent), álomittas. (various references)

Indonesian		lengar (dizzy), engak (conotase, dazed, sleepy). (various references)

Italian		sonnolento (dozy, sleepy, somnolent), insonnolito (sleepy). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		� い (aestivation, estivation, sleepy). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ねむい (aestivation, estivation, sleepy). (various references)

Malay		antuk ... mengantuk. (various references)

Manx		saveenagh (dozy, sleepy, slumberer, somnolent), dromm (dull, torpid). (various references)

Norwegian		døsig, søvnig. (various references)

Pig Latin		owsydray

Portuguese		desinteressante (jejune, uninteresting, watery), sonolento (dormant, dozy, poppied, sleepy, slumberous, somnolent), lento (blockish, dilatory, dull, heavy, laggard, lagging, languid, largo, lazy, lentous, plodding, ponderous, slack, slow, slowpoke, sluggish, stick-in-the-mud, tardy), lânguido (flabby, languid, languishing, listless, wanton), inerte (inactive, inert, leaded, leaden, lifeless, lumpish, stagnant, supine), apático (apathetic, apathetical, bovine, cool, frigid, languid, lethargic, listless, prostrate, sleepy, toneless). (various references)

Romanian		vlãguit (enervate, exhausted), soporific (hypnotic, narcotic, sleep-inducing, soporiferous, soporific), somnoros (dozy, drowsily, drowsyhead, sleepily, sleepy, sleepyhead, slumberous), somnolent (dormant, sleepy, somnolent), moleşit (drooping, dull, enervate, flabby, flaccid, tired, weak), aromitor (fragrant, perfumed, scented), alene (carelessly, idly, indolently, lazily, slacky, sleepily, sleepy, slow, slowly), adormitor (sleep-compelling, sleeping, somnific, soothing, soporific), adormit (benumbed, dead, dopey, dormant, drowsyhead, dullard, enervated, flat, mope, sleeper, sleepily, sleeping, sleepy, sluggish, tame, torpid). (various references)

Russian		сонный (dozy, heavy-headed, poppied, sleepy, slumberous, slumbery, slumbrous, snoozy, somnolent), вялый (apathetic, apathetical, dopey, dopy, exanimate, flabby, flaccid, flat, indolent, inert, insipid, lackadaisical, languid, languorous, lethargic, listless, remiss, saggy, sapless, slack, sluggish, spiritless, stolid, torpid), навевающий дремоту. (various references)

Scottish		cadalach. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		dremljiv (nappy, snoozing), pospanko, pospan (dreamy, sleepy, somnolent), mamuran (crapulous). (various references)

Spanish		soñoliento (dozy, drab, drowsy-head, sleepy, slumberous, somnolent). (various references)

Swedish		sömnig (dozy, languorous, sleepy, slumberous, somnolent), dåsig (dozy, poppied). (various references)

Thai		เซื่องซึม (mope about / around). (various references)

Turkish		uyutucu (somniferous, soporific), uyuşuk (asleep, benumbed, bonelazy, bovine, dormant, happy, indolent, inert, lackadaisical, lazy, lethargic, lethargical, numb, poky, quiescent, slack, slacker, sleepy, slothful, slouching, slouchy, soggy, stick in the mud, supine, torpid), uykulu (blear-eyed, dozy, sleepy), uyku bastırmış, mıymıntı (slack, sleepy, slowpoke, slug, sluggish, stagnant, stick in the mud), ayakta uyuyan. (various references)

Ukrainian		сонливий (oscitant, sleepy), снотворний (hypnotic, narcotic, opiate, sleepy, somnifacient, somniferous, soporific, stupefacient), в'ялий (flabby, flaccid, heavy-handed, listless, oscitant, phlegmatic, quaggy, sapless, sleepy, stagnant), заколисливий (slumberous, slumbrous, somnolent, yawny). (various references)

Vietnamese		thờ thẫn, ngủ lơ mơ (dozy), ngủ g� ngủ gật; bu�"n ngủ uể oải. (various references)

Welsh		pendrwm (top-heavy), hwyrdrwm (dull, sluggish). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	dormitabis, dormitabit, dormitas, dormitaverunt, dormitavit, dormitent, dormitet, dormitione, somniculosus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Misspellings
	"Drowsy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Arnowsky, dorsy, dowsy, Drewy, drosey, drosy, drousie, drousy, drow, Drowes, drowny, drowt, drowy, drowzie, drowzy, druws, growsy. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "drowsy" (pronounced drou"zē)
3	-ou" z ē	lousy.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-o-r-s-w-y"
	-1 letter: dowry, rowdy, sword, words, wordy.
	-2 letters: dors, dory, dows, drys, rods, rosy, rows, sord, word, yods, yows.
	-3 letters: dor, dos, dow, dry, ods, ors, rod, row, sod, sow, soy, wos, wry, yod, yow.
	-4 letters: do, od, or, os, ow, oy, so, wo, yo.
	Words containing the letters "d-o-r-s-w-y"
	+1 letter: bywords.
	+2 letters: dayworks, doorways, drowsily, keywords, roadways, rowdyish, rowdyism, workdays.
	+3 letters: bodyworks, rowdyisms, swordplay, wordplays, yardworks.
	+4 letters: dayflowers, earlywoods, swordplays, wondrously, wordlessly.
	+5 letters: donkeyworks, hydropowers, swordplayer.
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Expression	Frequency per Day
drowsy	12
doll drowsy	10
drowsy driving	8
allergy drowsy medicine non	6
drowsy water ranch	5
non drowsy antihistamine	4
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driving drowsy get vehicle when	3
close day drawing drive drowsy far hottest house large lay over privet silence so square summer	3
drowsy driver	2
benadryl drowsy non	2
drowsy maggie	2
dramamine drowsy non	2
drowsy fatigue truck volvo	2
chapter close day drawing drowsy far hottest house large lay over silence six so square summer	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Drowsy

Definition: Drowsy

Drowsy

Adjective

Synonyms: Drowsy

Synonyms within Context: Drowsy

Fatigue

Inactivity

Weariness

Crosswords: Drowsy

Commercial Usage: Drowsy

Books

Photo Album: Drowsy

Use in Literature: Drowsy

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Non-Fiction Usage: Drowsy

Usage Frequency: Drowsy

Expression: Drowsy

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Drowsy

Modern Translation: Drowsy

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