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| Main Entry: |
drowsy
 [drou-zee] 
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sleepy |
| Synonyms: | comatose, dazed, dopy, dozing, dozy, dreamy, drugged, half asleep, heavy, indolent, lackadaisical, languid, lazy, lethargic, lulling, napping, nodding, out of it, restful, sluggish, slumberous, snoozy, somnolent, soothing, soporific, tired, torpid |
| Antonyms: | alert, awake, energized, lively |
| Main Entry: | lazy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inactive, sluggish |
| Synonyms: | apathetic, asleep on the job, careless, comatose, dallying, dilatory, drowsy, dull, flagging, idle, inattentive, indifferent, indolent, inert, lackadaisical, laggard, lagging, languid, languorous, lethargic, lifeless, loafing, neglectful, out of it, passive, procrastinating, remiss, shiftless, slack, sleepy, slothful, slow, slow-moving, snoozy, somnolent, supine, tardy, tired, torpid, trifling, unconcerned, unenergetic, unindustrious, unpersevering, unready, weary |
| Antonyms: | active, diligent, energetic, hard-working, industrious, lively |
| Main Entry: | lethargic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lazy, sluggish |
| Synonyms: | apathetic, blah*, comatose, debilitated, dilatory, dopey, dormant, draggy, drowsy, dull, enervated, having spring fever, heavy, idle, impassive, inactive, indifferent, inert, lackadaisical, laggard, laid-back*, languid, languorous, listless, moony, nebbish, out of it, passive, phlegmatic, sleepy, sleepyhead, slothful, slow, slumberous, snoozy, somnolent, spiritless, stolid, stretchy, stupefied, supine, torpid, wimpy |
| Antonyms: | active, busy, energetic, lively, vital, vivacious |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Example Sentences
- Science might soon serve up the ultimate sugary snack for drowsy cops and late-night truckers: a caffeinated doughnut.
- It is not this mechanism, however, that makes people drowsy and starts them on the somnolent slide.
- Marijuana and its concentrated form, hashish, make you drowsy.
| Main Entry: | listless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | spiritless, without energy |
| Synonyms: | absent, abstracted, apathetic, blah*, bored, careless, dormant, dreamy, drowsy, dull, easygoing, energyless, enervated, faint, heavy, heedless, impassive, inanimate, inattentive, indifferent, indolent, inert, insouciant, lackadaisical, lagging, laid-back*, languid, languishing, languorous, leaden, lethargic, lifeless, limp, lukewarm, lymphatic, mopish, neutral, out of it, passive, phlegmatic, slack, sleepy, slow, sluggish, stupid, supine, thoughtless, torpid, uninterested, vacant |
| Antonyms: | active, alert, attentive, energetic, lively, untired |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | out cold |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unconscious |
| Synonyms: | benumbed, blacked out, comatose, dead to the world, down for the count, drowsy, feeling no pain, flattened, in a trance, numb, on the canvas, out, out like a light, passed out, put away, senseless, zonked |
| Main Entry: | pooped |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tired |
| Synonyms: | beat*, burned out, bushed, collapsing, dead on one's feet, dog-tired, done for, done in, drained, drooping, drowsy, enervated, exhausted, fatigued, fried, out of gas, overworked, played out, run ragged, run-down, shot*, sleepy, spent, tuckered out, wasted, weary, worn out |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sleepy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tired, dull |
| Synonyms: | asleep, blah*, comatose, dopey, dozy, draggy, drowsy, heavy, hypnotic, inactive, lethargic, listless, out of it, out*, quiet, sleeping, sleepyhead, slow, sluggish, slumberous, slumbersome, snoozy, somnolent, soporific, torpid, yawning |
| Antonyms: | animated, awake, energetic, unsleepy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | slow |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unhurried, lazy |
| Synonyms: | apathetic, crawling, creeping, dawdling, delaying, deliberate, dilatory, disinclined, dreamy, drowsy, easy, gradual, heavy, idle, imperceptible, inactive, indolent, inert, lackadaisical, laggard, lagging, leaden, leisurely, lethargic, listless, loitering, measured, moderate, negligent, passive, phlegmatic, plodding, ponderous, postponing, procrastinating, quiet, reluctant, remiss, slack, sleepy, slothful, slow-moving, sluggish, snaillike, stagnant, supine, tardy, torpid, tortoiselike |
| Antonyms: | active, busy, fast, hurried, quick, rapid |
| Main Entry: | somnolent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sleepy |
| Synonyms: | asleep, dozy, drowsy, listless, nodding off, out of it, sleeping, snoozy, soporific, tired |
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