Thesaurus:sleepy
English edit
Adjective edit
Sense: sleepy, tired, needing rest edit
Synonyms edit
- adrowse
- beat
- bedroomy
- beleaguered
- bushed
- dozy
- dragging one's tail
- drained
- drowsy
- exhausted
- eyelids at half-mast
- fatigued [⇒ thesaurus]
- lightheaded
- nodding off
- oscitant
- out of gas
- out of steam
- pooped
- pooped out
- sleepbound (poetic)
- sleepish
- sleepy
- slombry (obsolete)
- snoozy
- slumberful (poetic)
- slumberous
- slumbersome
- slumbery
- somniculous (obsolete)
- somnolent
- somnolescent
- tired
- tuckered
- tuckered out
- unconscious
- weary
- woozy
- yawning
- zonked
Antonyms edit
Hyponyms edit
See also edit
Further reading edit
- “683. inactivity” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “sleepy” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.