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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. ready to fall asleep;
- Example: "beginning to feel sleepy"
- Example: "a sleepy-eyed child with drooping eyelids"
- Example: "sleepyheaded students"
[syn: sleepy, sleepy-eyed, sleepyheaded]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Sleepy \Sleep"y\, a. [Compar. Sleepier; superl. Sleepiest.] [AS. sl?pig. See Sleep, n.] 1. Drowsy; inclined to, or overcome by, sleep. --Shak. [1913 Webster] She waked her sleepy crew. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 2. Tending to induce sleep; soporiferous; somniferous; as, a sleepy drink or potion. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 3. Dull; lazy; heavy; sluggish. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 'Tis not sleepy business; But must be looked to speedily and strongly. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 4. Characterized by an absence of watchfulness; as, sleepy security. [1913 Webster] Sleepy duck (Zool.), the ruddy duck. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

sleepy adj 1: ready to fall asleep; "beginning to feel sleepy"; "a sleepy-eyed child with drooping eyelids"; "sleepyheaded students" [syn: sleepy, sleepy-eyed, sleepyheaded]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

99 Moby Thesaurus words for "sleepy": anesthetized, apathetic, asleep, beat, benumbed, blase, bored, boring, cataleptic, comatose, dazed, dead, debilitated, doped, dopey, dormant, dozy, dreamy, droopy, drowsy, drugged, drugged with sleep, dull, enervated, exanimate, exhausted, fatigued, half asleep, heavy, heavy with sleep, heavy-eyed, hebetudinous, hypnotic, idle, in a stupor, inactive, inanimate, inert, jaded, knocked out, lackadaisical, languid, languorous, leaden, lethargic, lifeless, listless, lumpish, moribund, napping, narcoleptic, narcose, narcotic, narcotized, narcous, nodding, numb, opiate, oscitant, out, out of it, passive, phlegmatic, pooped, quiet, sated, sedated, sleep-drowned, sleep-drunk, sleep-filled, sleep-swollen, sleepful, sleeping, slow, sluggish, slumbering, slumberous, slumbery, snoozy, somnifacient, somniferous, somnolent, soporific, stagnant, stagnating, stretchy, stultified, stuporose, stuporous, supine, tired, torpid, vegetable, vegetative, wan, weary, world-weary, yawning, yawny