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Sound Asleep

Definition: Sound Asleep

Sound Asleep

Adjective

1. Sleeping deeply; "lying fast asleep on the sofa"; "it would be cruel to wake him; he's sound asleep".

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


Synonyms: Sound Asleep

Synonyms: fast asleep(p) (adj), sound asleep(p) (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Sound Asleep

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Inactivity

Sleeping; Verb: asleep; fast asleep, dead asleep, sound asleep; in a sound sleep; sound as a top, dormant, comatose; in the arms of Morpheus, in the lap of Morpheus.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Sound Asleep

Specialty definitions using "sound asleep": nocturnal sleep-related eating disorder. (references)

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Modern Usage: Sound Asleep

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I was sound asleep, and they burst into my room and turned everything upside down! (Clan des Siciliens, Le; writing credit: José Giovanni; Auguste Le Breton)

Lyrics

We've both been sound asleep, wake up, little Susie, and weep ("Wake Up Little Susie"; performing artist: The Everly Brothers)

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

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Use in Literature: Sound Asleep

TitleAuthorQuote

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

Beside, we are sound asleep nearly half our time.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Expression: Sound Asleep

Expression using "sound asleep": be sound asleep. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Sound Asleep

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

sound asleep

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Sound Asleep

Language Translations for "sound asleep"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

që fle me gjumë të rëndë. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏نام نوما عميقا. (various references)

   

Czech

  

tvrdì spící (fast asleep). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

syvässä unessa. (various references)

   

French

  

profondément endormi. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

לישון ש " עמוק". (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

mélyen alszik (to be fast asleep, to sleep soundly). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

白川夜船 , ぐうぐう寝ちゃう (accomplice, approximately, cohort, completely exhausted, dead tired, enervated, fast, fast asleep, firmly, flabby, flexible, hanging around, hesitatingly, indecisiveness, limp, lolling, more, much, noticeably, Okinawan fortress, pulpy, remarkably, senseless, sloppy, slowly, soft, soppy, sound of rinsing one's mouth, splat!, steadily, tardily, tired, to be unsteady, to fall sound asleep, to reel, to shake, to stray from the right path, turning round and round). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ぐっすり (fast asleep), しらかわよふね (be fast asleep). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oundsay asleepay

   

Russian 

  

крепко спать (be fast asleep). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

čvrsto zaspati. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

profundamente dormido (fast asleep). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

mışıl mışıl uyuyan. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Sound Asleep

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-l-n-o-p-s-s-u"

-2 letters: espanoles, unpleased.

-3 letters: adenoses, apolunes, danseuse, dapsones, delouses, deplanes, deposals, enolases, ensouled, espousal, espoused, eupnoeas, lessoned, loudness, paleness, poundals, seasoned, selenous, sepalous, spadones, spondees, unleased, unsealed.

-4 letters: aeneous, aldoses, apolune, dapsone, delouse, deplane, depones, deposal, deposes, dueness, dulness, elapsed, elapses, elodeas, endless, enolase, ensouls, espanol, espouse, eupneas, eupnoea, lassoed, loudens, napless, nodules, oldness.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Quotations: Fiction
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Anagrams
10. Bibliography


  

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