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napping
adjective as in asleep
adjective as in careless
Strongest matches
adjective as in drowsy
adjective as in off-guard
adjective as in resting
adjective as in sleeping
adjective as in unawake
adjective as in unprepared
adjective as in unthinking
Weak matches
- blundering
- brutish
- feckless
- foolish
- heedless
- impulsive
- inadvertent
- inconsiderate
- indelicate
- insensitive
- instinctive
- mechanical
- negligent
- oblivious
- outrageous
- rash
- rude
- selfish
- senseless
- tactless
- thoughtless
- uncaring
- unconscious
- undiplomatic
- unheeding
- unintended
- unmeant
- unmindful
- unpremeditated
- unreasoning
- untactful
- unwise
- vacant
- witless
adverb as in off-guard
Example Sentences
Are they always going to have the propensity for napping during games?
The nonprofit National Sleep Foundation recommends people gradually adjust their sleep schedule, including by napping, and use relaxation techniques such as meditation and breathing exercises to calm themselves.
It takes a few days to shoot this three-hour event, and we compress it because, you know, otherwise, you're going to watch puppies literally napping on the sidelines for five minutes during game time.
Mice are nocturnal and are "polyphasic sleepers" -- napping for a few minutes before arousing briefly to survey their environment and then resuming their slumber.
The film opens with our feline encountering a pack of overzealous canines in the blooming forest before napping in a seemingly abandoned Northern European-inspired home.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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