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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sleepy |
| Synonyms: | asleep, blah*, comatose, dopey, dozy, draggy, drowsy, heavy*, hypnotic, inactive, lethargic, listless, narcotic, opiate, out of it, out*, quiet, sedative, sleeping, sleepyhead, slow, sluggish, slumberous, slumbersome, snoozy, somniferous, somnific, somnolent, soporific, torpid, yawning |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | narcotic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dulling, painkilling |
| Synonyms: | analgesic, anesthetic, calming, deadening, hypnotic, numbing, opiate, sedative, somnifacient, somnific, somnolent, somnorific, soporiferous, soporific, stupefacient, stupefactive, stupefying |
| Main Entry: | narcotic |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | powerful drug inducing anesthesia or sleep |
| Synonyms: | analgesic, anesthetic, anodyne, dope*, downer, fix*, hard drug, hard stuff, heroin, hypnotic, junk*, laudanum, lenitive, merchandise*, nepenthe, opiate, opium, painkiller, sedative, somnifacient, soporific, stuff*, stupefacient, tranquilizer |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | slumberous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sedative |
| Synonyms: | clandestineness, confidence, confidentiality, covertness, dark, darkness, furtiveness, hiding, hush, hypnotic, isolation, mystery, narcotic, opiate, privacy, reticence, retirement, seclusion, secretiveness, secretness, silence, solitude, somnifacient, somniferous, somnific, somnolent, soporific, stealth, suppression, surreptitiousness |
| Main Entry: | somniferous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sleepy |
| Synonyms: | asleep, blah*, comatose, dopey, dozy, draggy, drowsy, heavy*, hypnotic, inactive, lethargic, listless, narcotic, opiate, out of it, out*, quiet, sedative, sleeping, sleepyhead, slow, sluggish, slumberous, slumbersome, snoozy, somnifacient, somnific, somnolent, soporific, torpid, yawning |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | somnific |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sleepy |
| Synonyms: | asleep, blah*, comatose, dopey, dozy, draggy, drowsy, heavy*, hypnotic, inactive, lethargic, listless, narcotic, opiate, out of it, out*, quiet, sedative, sleeping, sleepyhead, slow, sluggish, slumberous, slumbersome, snoozy, somnifacient, somniferous, somnolent, soporific, torpid, yawning |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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