What does sleepy mean?

Definitions for sleepy
ˈsli pisleep·y

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. sleepy, sleepy-eyed, sleepyheadedadjective

    ready to fall asleep

    "beginning to feel sleepy"; "a sleepy-eyed child with drooping eyelids"; "sleepyheaded students"

Wiktionary

  1. sleepynoun

    The gum that builds up in the eye

  2. sleepyadjective

    Tired; feeling the need for sleep.

  3. sleepyadjective

    Suggesting tiredness.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Sleepyadjective

    Etymology: from sleep.

    Why did you bring these daggers from the place?
    They must lie there. Go, carry them and smear
    The sleepy grooms with blood. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

    She wak’d her sleepy crew,
    And rising hasty, took a short adieu. Dryden.

    We will give you sleepy drinks, that your senses unintelligent of our insufficience, may, though they cannot praise us, as little accuse us. William Shakespeare, Winter’s Tale.

    Let such bethink them, if the sleepy drench
    Of that forgetful lake benumb not still. John Milton.

    I sleeped about eight hours, and no wonder; for the physicians had mingled a sleepy potion in the wine. Gulliver.

Wikipedia

  1. SLEEPY

    Sleepy is an original novel written by Kate Orman and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Seventh Doctor, Bernice, Chris and Roz. It is part of the "Psi Powers series".

ChatGPT

  1. sleepy

    Sleepy refers to the state or feeling of being tired, drowsy, or needing sleep. It often comes with symptoms such as lethargy, decreased alertness, and a lack of energy.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Sleepynoun

    drowsy; inclined to, or overcome by, sleep

  2. Sleepynoun

    tending to induce sleep; soporiferous; somniferous; as, a sleepy drink or potion

  3. Sleepynoun

    dull; lazy; heavy; sluggish

  4. Sleepynoun

    characterized by an absence of watchfulness; as, sleepy security

  5. Etymology: [AS. slpig. See Sleep, n.]

Wikidata

  1. Sleepy

    Sleepy is an original novel written by Kate Orman and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Seventh Doctor, Bernice, Chris and Roz. It is part of the "Psi Powers series".

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of sleepy in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of sleepy in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of sleepy in a Sentence

  1. President Trump:

    The Bidens got rich -- and that is substantiated -- while America got robbed, sleepy Joe and his friends sold out America. ... And in a brand new report, just came out as Im walking on the stage, it turns out that when Joe Biden was vice president -- he worked with the so-called whistleblower. This is nothing more than a partisan witch hunt, sabotage, and Im sure theyre going to say, totally unsubstantiated.

  2. Geoffrey Ng:

    Penang became more of a sleepy town after that, it's almost like a new renaissance for Penang. Penang is starting to see a second wave of investments after so many years of having lost its shine to China.

  3. Jeon Kyong-man:

    Deng designated Shenzhen as a special economic zone and made that sleepy fishing village to a manufacturing hub of the world, kim will be eager for those, especially as he will want minimal changes to other parts of the economy.

  4. Walter Bagehot:

    The most intellectual of men are moved quite as much by the circumstances which they are used to as by their own will. The active voluntary part of a man is very small, and if it were not economized by a sleepy kind of habit, its results would be null.

  5. Raj Dasgupta:

    When you activate this receptor, it makes you sleepy, many sleep aids that we take work on GABA.

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