Definition of SLEEPY

sleepy

Meanings

Plural: sleepies

Adjective Satellite

  • ready to fall asleep
    • "beginning to feel sleepy"
    • "a sleepy-eyed child with drooping eyelids"
    • "sleepyheaded students"

Adj

  • Tired; feeling the need for sleep.
  • Suggesting tiredness.
  • Tending to induce sleep.
  • Dull; lazy.
  • Quiet; without bustle or activity.

Noun

  • The gum that builds up in the eye; sleep, gound.
  • Shingleback.

Origin / Etymology

Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *slēpaz
Proto-West Germanic *slāp
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Proto-West Germanic *slāpag
Old English *slǣpiġ
Middle English slepy
English sleepy
From Middle English slepi, slepy, from Anglian Old English *slēpiġ (cognate with West Saxon *slǣpiġ, attested in unslǣpiġ (“not sleepy, sleepless”)), from Proto-West Germanic *slāpag (“sleepy”), equivalent to sleep + -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian släipich (“sleepy”), West Frisian sliepich (“sleepy”), Middle Dutch slapig, slêpig, slapich (“sleepy”), Middle Low German slâpich, Middle High German slāfec (> archaic German schlafig (“sleepy”)).

Synonyms

adrowse, banjaxed, beat, bedroomy, bleareyed, bleary, bleary-eyed, bone-tired, buggered, bushed, busted, cream crackered, dead tired, dog-tired, dog-weary, done, done in, done up, dormitive, dozy, dragging one's tail, drained, drowsy, enervated, exhausted, eyelids at half-mast, fagged out, fatigued, forfairn, forlagen, forworn, fried, fucked, gassed, heavy, heavyeyed, hypnic, hypnotic, jaded, jiggered, Kerry Packered, knacked, knackered, languid, nadgered, nodding off, oscitant, out of gas, out of steam, played out, pooped, pooped out, pumped, run-down, shagged, shagged out, shattered, shot, sleep, sleepbound, sleepish, sleepy, sleepy-eyed, sleepyheaded, slombry, sluggish, slumberful, slumberous, slumbersome, slumbery, snoozy, somniculous, somniferous, somnific, somnolent, somnolescent, soporiferous, soporific, soporous, spent, stuffed, stupefacient, stupefactive, tired, tired out, tranquilizing, tuckered, tuckered out, vapid, wappened, washed out, weariful, weary, whacked, whipped, worn, worn out, zonked

Antonyms

nonsleepy, unsleepy

Scrabble Score: 11

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

Words With Friends Score: 12

sleepy is a valid Words With Friends word