Sleepy

Definition: Sleepy

Sleepy

Adjective

1. Ready to fall asleep; "beginning to feel sleepy"; "a sleepy-eyed child with drooping eyelids"; "sleepyheaded students".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "sleepy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Note: Sleepy \Sleep"y\, adjective. [Comparative Sleepier; superlative Sleepiest.]. (references)

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Sleepy

Fatigue

Verb: be fatigued; Adjective: yawn; (get sleepy); droop, sink, flag; lose breath, lose wind; gasp, pant, puff, blow, drop, swoon, faint, succumb.

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.

Insensibility

Apathetic; leuco-, phlegmatic; dull, frigid; cold blooded, cold hearted; cold as charity; flat, maudlin, obtuse, inert, supine, sluggish, torpid, torpedinous, torporific; sleepy; (inactive); languid, half-hearted, tame; numbed; comatose; anaesthetic; stupefied, chloroformed, drugged, stoned; palsy-stricken.

Crosswords: Sleepy

Maybe she's sleepy. (True Lies; writing credit: Claude Zidi; Simon Michaël)

Yes, I'm sleepy. (Wild Wild West; writing credit: Jim Thomas; John Thomas)

I curse the day you came to Sleepy Hollow (Sleepy Hollow; writing credit: Kevin Yagher)

That would make anyone sleepy. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Funny, it just makes me feel sleepy. (Will & Grace; writing credit: Evan Weinstein)

It was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty Delta day ("Ode to Billy Joe"; performing artist: Bobbie Gentry)

The sound of sleepy music, (Comin' Back to Me; performing artist: Jefferson Airplane)

I'm not sleepy and there ain't no place I'm going to (Mr. Tambourine Man; performing artist: The Byrds; writing credit: Bob Dylan)

Cheer up, Sleepy Jean (Daydream Believer; performing artist: The Monkees)

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. (references; author: Mark Twain)

Sleepy Time Chimes (1971)

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1958)

Sleepy Time Possum (1951)

When It's Sleepy Time Down South (1932)

Sleepy Head (1931)

Sleepy Lagoon (performing artist: The Platters)

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Books

• Children's Sleepy Time Stories (reference)

• Sleepy Bears (reference)

• Sleepy Time Olie (reference)

• The Art of Sleepy Hollow (reference)

• The Fifth Horseman: A Sleepy Hollow Legend (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Sleepy Hollow High/Night of the Livin (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Psychoactive Beats: Continuously Mixed History of Sleepy C (reference)

• Sleepy Hollow: Music from the Motion Picture [SOUNDTRACK] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Relief effort transforms sleepy terminal to humanitarian hub.

She made a quaint contrast with the sleepy old stead. Credit: Library of Congress.

Rip Van Winkle House, Sleepy Hollow, Catskill Mountains, N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress.

Ralph Waldo Emerson's grave, Sleepy Hollow, Concord, Mass. Credit: Library of Congress.

Washington Irving's grave, Sleepy Hollow, Tarrytown, N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress.

Old Dutch Church in Sleepy Hollow, Tarrytown, N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress.

Lasker Memorial, Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, North Tarrytown, New York. Mausoleum I. Credit: Library of Congress.

Lasker Mausoleum, Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, N. Tarrytown, New York. Exterior I. Credit: Library of Congress.

Sweetser, Sleepy George and Lucy, pacing for a purse of $1,000 at Hartford Conn., Aug. 22, 1878 / J. Cameron. Credit: Library of Congress.

Jas. H. Wallick presents The dairy farm a romance of Sleepy Hollow by Eleanor Merron. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Two or three others leaned out through the open window, each holding his mug of beer, with red faces and sleepy eyes

She served paving stones, as she would have served wine, with a sleepy air.

Temple sat on the pediment of a pillar, leaning back, his cap pulled down on his sleepy eyes

Startled sleepy eyes looked out at her.

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Health

Everyone feels sleepy at times. (references)

A person who is sleepy and drives is at high risk for an automobile crash. (references)

When the early effects fade, over a few hours, the user can become very sleepy. (references)

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Expressions using "sleepy": be sleepy ♦ feel sleepy ♦ i am sleepy ♦ make sleepy ♦ sleepy dick ♦ sleepy duck ♦ Sleepy Eye ♦ Sleepy Hollow ♦ sleepy sickness. Additional references.

Beginning with "sleepy": sleepy-eyed, sleepy-head, sleepy-headed, sleepy-looking.

Ending with "sleepy": still-sleepy.

Albanian

i pjekur tepër, i përgjumur (asleep, dopey, dopy, dormant, dozy, drowsy, lethargic, slumberous, somnolent, soporific), i heshtur (antisocial, cagey, cagy, catlike, close-mouthed, dumb, latent, mute, quiet, silent, taciturn, tight lipped, wordless), i fjetur (dormant, lethargic, sleeping, stagnant, torpid). (various references)

Arabic 

‏منوم (hypnotic, somnifacient, somniferous, soporific), ‏مسترخي (laid back, slack), ‏نعسان (drowsy, heavy, somnolent, soporific), ‏ناعس (dozy, slumbering), ‏خامل (idle, inactive, lazy, sluggish, torpid), ‏بليد (bovine, dim, doltish, dopey, dull, inanimate, lethargic, light minded, lumpish, obtuse, passive, silly, slow, slow moving, sluggish, stupid, thick-headed, torpid, unworkable). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сънен (dopey, dopy, heavy), сънлив (dozy, drowsy, lethargic, poppied, slumberous, somnolent), тих (airless, breathless, calm, canny, dreamy, halcyon, low, noiseless, peaceful, placid, quiet, restful, silent, slow, small, soft, stealthy, still, stilly, tearless, tranquil, under, uneventful), ненаблюдателен (blind, unobservant, unseeing), заспал (asleep, slow), ленив (idle, indolent, lazy, slothful, tardigrade), приспивен (slumberous, somnolent). (various references)

Chinese 

困 (distress, doze off). (various references)

Czech

ospalý (dopey, dozy, drowsy, languorous, nappy, slumberous, somnolent, soporific), neteèný (apathetic, impassive, indifferent, indolent, inert, lackadaisical, lethargic, passive, phlegmatic, sluggish, supine). (various references)

Danish

søvnig (drowsy). (various references)

Dutch

slaperig (drowsy). (various references)

Esperanto

dormema. (various references)

Farsi 

خواب الود (Dreamy, Drowsy, Heavy, Somnolent, Soporific). (various references)

Finnish

uninen, unelias (drowsy, lethargic). (various references)

French

somnolent (slumbering, slumberous, slumberously), qui a envie de dormir, ensommeillé. (various references)

German

schläfrig (dozy, drowsy, languorous, lethargic, lethargically, sleepily, slumberous, slumbrous, somnolent), müde (languid, limp, sleepily, tired, tiredly, waery, wearily, weary, worn). (various references)

Greek 

νυστάζων (slumberous, somnolent), νυσταγμένοσ (somnolent), νυσταγμένος (drowsy), νυσταλέοσ (slumberous, yawny), υπνηλόσ (somnolent). (various references)

Hebrew 

מנומנם (dozy, drowsy, somnolent), ישנוני, אחוז שנה (drowsy, somnolent), רדים (drowsy, somnolent), רדום (drowsy, lethargic, slumberous, somnolent, soporose), נמנמני (drowsy, slumberous, slumbery), ניום (drowsy). (various references)

Hungarian

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

Indonesian

mengantuk (collide against, doze, drowse, noddy), engak (conotase, dazed, drowsy). (various references)

Italian

sonnolento (dozy, drowsy, somnolent), insonnolito (drowsy), assonnato (drowsy, slumberous, slumberously), addormentato (asleep, sleeping, slow). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

眠い (aestivation, drowsy, estivation). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ねむたい, ねむい (aestivation, drowsy, estivation). (various references)

Korean 

졸리는 (Sleepier, Sleepiest). (various references)

Manx

saveenagh (dozy, drowsy, slumberer, somnolent), cadlagh (sleepyhead; drowsy). (various references)

Pig Latin

eepyslay.(various references)

Polish

senny. (various references)

Portuguese

sonolento (dormant, dozy, drowsy, poppied, slumberous, somnolent). (various references)

Romanian

somnoros (dozy, drowsily, drowsy, drowsyhead, sleepily, sleepyhead, slumberous), somnolent (dormant, drowsy, somnolent), mototol (ball, clew, slack, sluggish), mahmur (dizzy, maudlin, seedy), indolent (careless, easy going, idle, indolent, lazy, nonchalant, remiss, slack, slothful, supine, truant, unheeding), apatic (apathetic, apathetical, apathetically, indifferent, indolently, insensible, lackadaisical, lackadaisically, languid, languidly, listless, moony, sluggish, supine, tardy, torpid), alene (carelessly, drowsy, idly, indolently, lazily, slacky, sleepily, slow, slowly), adormit (benumbed, dead, dopey, dormant, drowsy, drowsyhead, dullard, enervated, flat, mope, sleeper, sleepily, sleeping, sluggish, tame, torpid). (various references)

Russian 

сонный (dozy, drowsy, heavy-headed, poppied, slumberous, slumbery, slumbrous, snoozy, somnolent). (various references)

Scottish

trom (burdensome, difficult, hard, heavy, onerous, oppressive, pregnant, sad). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

sanjiv (dozy, nappy, slumberous), utonuo u snove, uspavan (somnifacient, somnolent), pospan (dreamy, drowsy, somnolent), neispavan. (various references)

Spanish

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

Swedish

sömnig (dozy, drowsy, languorous, slumberous, somnolent). (various references)

Thai

ง่วงนอน (dopey). (various references)

Turkish

uyuşuk (asleep, benumbed, bonelazy, bovine, dormant, drowsy, happy, indolent, inert, lackadaisical, lazy, lethargic, lethargical, numb, poky, quiescent, slack, slacker, slothful, slouching, slouchy, soggy, stick in the mud, supine, torpid), uykusu gelmiş, uykulu (blear-eyed, dozy, drowsy), uyku sersemi, miskin (lazy, shiftless, slacker, slothful, slowcoach, sluggard, sluggish, squalid), mahmur (blear-eyed, foggy), mıymıntı (drowsy, slack, slowpoke, slug, sluggish, stagnant, stick in the mud), hareketsiz (at rest, dormant, flat, immobile, in repose, inactive, inert, motionless, ponderous, put, quiescent, stagnant, staring, stationary, still, stock-still, tepid), durgun (airless, bovine, calm, depressed, ditch water, ditchwater, flat, halcyon, in the doldrums, inactive, languid, lifeless, placid, quiescent, quiet, serene, settled, slack, stagnant, standing, static, still, stock-still, tranquil, unruffled, untroubled, windless), çürümeye başlamış (putrescent). (various references)

Ukrainian

сонний (heavy-handed, morphemic, poppied, slumbery, somniferous, somnolent, soporific, yawny), сонливий (drowsy, oscitant), снотворний (drowsy, hypnotic, narcotic, opiate, somnifacient, somniferous, soporific, stupefacient), в'ялий (drowsy, flabby, flaccid, heavy-handed, listless, oscitant, phlegmatic, quaggy, sapless, stagnant). (various references)

Vietnamese 

ngái ngủ làm buồn ngủ uể oải, buồn ngủ (yawningly). (various references)

Welsh

cysglyd. (various references)

hypnotikos. (various references)

somniculosus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "sleepy": sleepyhead, sleepyheads. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Sleepy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bleepy, Saleeby, Sheppy, shleep, Siepi, sleap, sleepie, sleept, sleevy, sleezy, slipy, sloopy, sneepy. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: peels, peles, seely, seepy, sleep, slype, speel, yelps.

-2 letters: eels, eely, else, espy, eyes, lees, leys, lyes, lyse, peel, pees, pele, pyes, seel, seep, yelp.

-3 letters: eel, els, eye, lee, ley, lye, pee, pes, ply, pye, see, sel, sly, spy, yep, yes.

-4 letters: el, es, pe, ye.

+1 letter: spleeny, steeply, yelpers.

+2 letters: cypselae, employes, epilepsy, epistyle, peytrels, phyleses, polyenes, sleepily, speedily.

+3 letters: employees, employers, epicycles, epistyles, expressly, lycopenes, operosely, parleyers, parsleyed, peevishly, pensively, peristyle, polyester, polygenes, precisely, presently, proselyte, redeploys, reemploys, splayfeet, supremely, syllepses, teleplays, typestyle.

+4 letters: clepsydrae, epicalyces, epicalyxes, epiphyseal, erysipelas, especially, flyspecked, helplessly, hopelessly, hyperboles, hyphenless, lectotypes, peerlessly, pelecypods, pericycles, peristyles, perversely, phylesises, polyesters, polymerase, polymerise, polysemies, polytenies, polythenes, prepensely, presumedly, propylenes, proselyted, proselytes, pyelitises, screenplay, separately, sheepishly, sleepyhead, speleology, sperrylite, sweepingly, typestyles.