Thesaurus:asleep

Thesaurus

asleep

English

Adjective

Sense: resting in a state of reduced consciousness

Synonyms

• asleep
• cold    [⇒ thesaurus]
• comatose (informal)
• dead to the world
• dormant
• down for the count (figuratively)
• nangry (obsolete, Australia)
• out cold
• out like a light (colloquial)
• sacked out (idiomatic)
• sleepbound (poetic)
• sleeping
• somnambular
• unawakening
• unawaking
• unwaking

Antonyms

• awake    [⇒ thesaurus]

Hyponyms

Very asleep

• dead asleep
• fast asleep
• sound asleep
• zonked (slang)

Slightly asleep

• adoze
• half-asleep
• half-awake

Activity whilst asleep

• somnambulant
• somnambulic
• somnambulistic
• somniloquous

Hypernyms

• inactive    [⇒ thesaurus]
• unconscious

See also

• Thesaurus:sleepy

Further reading

• “683. inactivity” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “asleep” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.