Meaning of DROWSY
| Pronunciation: | | 'drawzee
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- [adj] showing lack of attention or boredom; "the yawning congregation"
- [adj] half asleep; "made drowsy by the long ride"; "it seemed a pity to disturb the drowsing (or dozing) professor"; "a tired dozy child"; "the nodding (or napping) grandmother in her rocking chair"
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| | Synonyms: | | asleep(p), dozing(a), dozy, drowsing(a), inattentive, napping(a), nodding(a), oscitant, yawning(a) |
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| | Definition: | | \Drow"sy\, a. [Compar. {Drowsier}; superl. {Drowsiest}.]
1. Inclined to drowse; heavy with sleepiness; lethargic;
dozy. ``When I am drowsy.'' --Shak.
Dapples the drowsy east with spots of gray. --Shak.
To our age's drowsy blood Still shouts the inspiring
sea. --Lowell.
2. Disposing to sleep; lulling; soporific.
The drowsy hours, dispensers of all good.
--Tennyson.
3. Dull; stupid. `` Drowsy reasoning.'' --Atterbury.
Syn: Sleepy; lethargic; dozy; somnolent; comatose; dull
heavy; stupid.
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| | Related Terms: | | anesthetized, appeasing, calming, cataleptic, comatose, cradling, doped, dozy, dreamy, drugged, drugged with sleep, gentling, groggy, half asleep, heavy, heavy with sleep, heavy-eyed, hushing, in a stupor, lackadaisical, languid, languorous, lazy, lethargic, listless, lulling, mollifying, napping, narcoleptic, narcose, narcotized, narcous, nodding, oscitant, out of it, pacifying, quietening, restful, rocking, sedated, sleep-drowned, sleep-drunk, sleep-filled, sleepful, sleep-swollen, sleepy, sluggish, slumberous, slumbery, snoozy, somnolent, soothful, soothing, soporific, stilling, stretchy, stuporose, stuporous, tired, torpid, tranquilizing, weary, yawning, yawny |
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