Definitions

asleep

[uh-sleep] / əˈslip /

ADJECTIVE

unconscious

Synonyms

STRONGEST

comatose dormant

WEAK

catching some zzz's conked crashed dozing dreaming flaked out getting shut-eye hibernating in dreamland in repose inactive inert napping on the kip out out cold out like a light out of it reposing resting sacked out sleeping slumbering snoozing snoring somnolent taking forty winks

Antonyms

WEAK

attentive awake conscious

Example Sentences

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"This study addresses a major gap by focusing on the workers who start their day when most people are still asleep."

From Science Daily

One of them falls asleep to episodes hoping some of the details stick in his head.

From The Wall Street Journal

Many of them were asleep after celebrating till midnight at a birthday party.

From The Wall Street Journal

“I did see . . . something fast. If you two wouldn’t have fallen asleep so early, you would have seen it, too.”

From Literature

Then I switch off the light and I’m asleep within minutes.

From Literature