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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. half asleep;
- Example: "made drowsy by the long ride"
- Example: "it seemed a pity to disturb the drowsing (or dozing) professor"
- Example: "a tired dozy child"
- Example: "the nodding (or napping) grandmother in her rocking chair"
[syn: drowsy, drowsing(a), dozy]

2. showing lack of attention or boredom;
- Example: "the yawning congregation"
[syn: drowsy, oscitant, yawning(a)]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Drowsy \Drow"sy\, a. [Compar. Drowsier; superl. Drowsiest.] 1. Inclined to drowse; heavy with sleepiness; lethargic; dozy. "When I am drowsy." --Shak. [1913 Webster] Dapples the drowsy east with spots of gray. --Shak. [1913 Webster] To our age's drowsy blood Still shouts the inspiring sea. --Lowell. [1913 Webster] 2. Disposing to sleep; lulling; soporific. [1913 Webster] The drowsy hours, dispensers of all good. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster] 3. Dull; stupid. " Drowsy reasoning." --Atterbury. Syn: Sleepy; lethargic; dozy; somnolent; comatose; dull heavy; stupid. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

drowsy adj 1: half asleep; "made drowsy by the long ride"; "it seemed a pity to disturb the drowsing (or dozing) professor"; "a tired dozy child"; "the nodding (or napping) grandmother in her rocking chair" [syn: drowsy, drowsing(a), dozy] 2: showing lack of attention or boredom; "the yawning congregation" [syn: drowsy, oscitant, yawning(a)]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

64 Moby Thesaurus words for "drowsy": anesthetized, appeasing, calming, cataleptic, comatose, cradling, doped, dozy, dreamy, drugged, drugged with sleep, gentling, groggy, half asleep, heavy, heavy with sleep, heavy-eyed, hushing, in a stupor, lackadaisical, languid, languorous, lazy, lethargic, listless, lulling, mollifying, napping, narcoleptic, narcose, narcotized, narcous, nodding, oscitant, out of it, pacifying, quietening, restful, rocking, sedated, sleep-drowned, sleep-drunk, sleep-filled, sleep-swollen, sleepful, sleepy, sluggish, slumberous, slumbery, snoozy, somnolent, soothful, soothing, soporific, stilling, stretchy, stuporose, stuporous, tired, torpid, tranquilizing, weary, yawning, yawny