Definition of DROWSY

drowsy

Meanings

Adjective Satellite

  • half asleep
    • "made drowsy by the long ride"
  • showing lack of attention or boredom

Adj

  • Inclined to drowse; heavy with sleepiness
  • Causing someone to fall sleep or feel sleepy; lulling; soporific.
  • Boring.
  • Dull; stupid.

Origin / Etymology

From drowse + -y, despite the fact that drowsy (1520) is recorded before drowse (1570). Compare Old English drūsian (“to droop, drowse, become languid”).

Synonyms

addlebrained, addlepated, adrowse, airheaded, ass-brained, banal, beat, bedroomy, bee-brained, beef-witted, beefheaded, beetle-headed, birdbrained, blah, bland, blockheaded, Boeotian, boneheaded, boofheaded, boring, brainless, bubbleheaded, buffle-headed, bullet-headed, cerebrally challenged, childish, chowderheaded, chuckleheaded, cold, colourless, crackbrained, cretinous, dense, dented, dim, dim-bulb, dim-headed, dim-witted, doltish, dopey, dormitive, dozy, drab, dragging one's tail, dreich, drowsing, drowsy, dull, dull as dishwater, dull-headed, dull-minded, dull-witted, dumb, dumb as a bag of hammers, dumb as a box of rocks, dumb as a doorknob, dumb as a post, dumb as a sack of hammers, dumb as an ox, dumb as dirt, dumber than a box of rocks, dumber than a rock, dunderheaded, empty-headed, eyelids at half-mast, fatheaded, feeble-minded, flat, flea-brained, foolish, fuckwitted, fuzzy-headed, fuzzy-minded, half-brained, half-witted, hammer-headed, ho-hum, humdrum, hypnic, hypnotic, idiotic, imbecilic, inane, insipid, intellectually challenged, knuckleheaded, lackluster, lame, lamebrained, languid, lethargic, lifeless, longsome, lowbrow, lumpish, lunkheaded, mentally challenged, mentally retarded, mindless, monosynaptic, monotonous, moronic, mundane, muttonheaded, nitwitted, no fun at parties, nodding off, not the sharpest crayon in the box, not the sharpest knife in the drawer, not the sharpest tool in the shed, numbskulled, oafish, obtuse, oscitant, out of steam, peabrained, pedantic, pedestrian, plain, plodding, pratty, prosaic, prosy, pudding-headed, puerile, purblind, quarter-witted, retarded, rockheaded, sharp as a bowling ball, sheep-headed, shit-for-brains, simple, sleepbound, sleepish, sleepy, slombry, slow, slow-witted, slumberful, slumberous, slumbersome, slumbery, smooth-brained, snoozeworthy, snoozy, somniculous, somniferous, somnific, somnolent, somnolescent, soporiferous, soporific, soporous, static, stodgy, stolid, straightforward, stupefacient, stupefactive, stupid, tedious, thick, thick as a brick, thick as a plank, thick as a whale omelette, thick as champ, thick as mince, thick as pig shit, thick as two short planks, thick-skulled, thickheaded, thickwitted, tired, tranquilizing, unapprehensive, unclever, uncool, unintelligent, uninteresting, unsmart, vacant, vacuous, vanilla, vapid, wan, weaksauce, witless, wooden, wooden-headed, wool-headed, woolly-headed, woolly-minded, yawning

Scrabble Score: 13

drowsy is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
drowsy is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
drowsy is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 12

drowsy is a valid Words With Friends word