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Definition: Sound Asleep |
Sound AsleepAdjective1. 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 AsleepSynonyms: fast asleep(p) (adj), sound asleep(p) (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: Sound Asleep |
| Specialty definitions using "sound asleep": nocturnal sleep-related eating disorder. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
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) | |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | Beside, we are sound asleep nearly half our time. |
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Expression using "sound asleep": be sound asleep. Additional references. | |
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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
sound asleep | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 крепко спать (be fast asleep). (various references) čvrsto zaspati. (various references) profundamente dormido (fast asleep). (various references) mışıl mışıl uyuyan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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. | |
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| 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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