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slumbering
[sluhm-ber] 
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asleep
[uh-sleep]
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unconscious |
| Synonyms: | catching some zzz's, comatose, conked, crashed, dormant, dozing, dreaming, flaked out, getting shut-eye, hibernating, in dreamland, in repose, inactive, inert, napping, on the kip, out cold, out like a light, out of it, out*, reposing, resting, sacked out, sleeping, slumbering, snoozing, snoring, somnolent, taking forty winks |
| Antonyms: | attentive, awake, conscious |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | doze |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | take a nap |
| Synonyms: | catch a wink, catnap, cop some z's, drift off, drop off, drowse, nod off, sleep, sleep lightly, slumber, snooze |
| Main Entry: | quiescent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inactive |
| Synonyms: | asleep, at rest, deactivated, dormant, fallow, idle, immobile, in abeyance, inert, inoperative, latent, motionless, passive, quiet, slumbering, stagnant, still |
| Antonyms: | active |
| Main Entry: | repose |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | relax; recline |
| Synonyms: | deposit, lay down, lie, lie down, loaf, loll, lounge, place, rest, settle, settle down, slant, sleep, slumber, stretch, stretch out, take it easy, tilt |
| Antonyms: | be active, be busy, energize |
| Main Entry: | rest |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be calm; sleep |
| Synonyms: | be at ease, be comfortable, breathe, compose oneself, doze, dream, drowse, ease off, ease up, idle, laze, lean, let down, let up, lie by, lie down, lie still, loaf, loll, lounge, nap, nod, put feet up, recline, refresh oneself, relax, repose, sit down, slack, slack off, slacken, slumber, snooze, spell, stretch out, take a break, take a nap, take five, take it easy, take life easy, take ten, take time out, unbend, unlax, unwind, wind down |
| Antonyms: | activate, be active, carry out, do, energize |
| Main Entry: | sleep |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | suspend consciousness |
| Synonyms: | bed down, bunk, catch a wink, catch forty winks, catnap, conk out, cop some z's, crash*, doze, dream, drop off, drowse, fall asleep, fall out, flop, hibernate, hit the hay, hit the sack, languish, nap, nod, nod off, oversleep, relax, repose, rest, retire, sack out, saw wood, slumber, snooze, snore, take a nap, turn in, yawn, zonk out, zzz |
| Antonyms: | wake, waken |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | snooze |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | sleep lightly |
| Synonyms: | catnap, doze, drop off, drowse, nap, nod off, siesta, slumber, take forty winks |
| Antonyms: | awaken, wake up |
| Main Entry: | sleeping |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | asleep |
| Synonyms: | abed, comatose, dormant, inactive, latent, slumbering, unconscious |
| Antonyms: | waking |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2012 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Copyright © 2012 by the Philip Lief Group.
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| Main Entry: | rest |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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Adjectives: |
at a loose ends, at a stand, at a standstill, at anchor, at leisure, at one's ease, at rest, becalmed, calm, cataleptic, cubatory, deliberate, fixed, hypnagogic, immovable, leisurely, lodged, mawmsey, motionless, moveless, picktooth, quiescent, quiet, recumbent, reposing, restful, semisomnous, silent, sleeping, slow, somnifugous, stagnant, standing still, stationary, still, still as a mouse, still as a post, still as a statue, still as death, stock still, undisturbed, unmoved, unruffled, unstrained, untraveled
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