drowsy
IPA: drˈaʊzi
adjective
- Inclined to drowse; heavy with sleepiness
- Causing someone to fall sleep or feel sleepy; lulling; soporific.
- Boring.
- Dull; stupid.
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Examples of "drowsy" in Sentences
- It is drowsy after having lunch.
- I saw The Drowsy Chaperone in early August.
- It's so peaceful even the clouds are drowsy.
- This stage is sometimes referred to as somnolence or drowsy sleep.
- The chaperone is spoofed in the 2006 musical 'The Drowsy Chaperone'.
- Tired and drowsy, Stan agrees to help them build a manger for the baby.
- Your child may still be drowsy from the anesthesia, but as this begins to wear off, there might be some discomfort from the incisions.
- All being so nearly ready, I called the drowsy boy again, and, showing him a very large stick in the wood-box, asked him to bring me a hatchet.
- The moon would be full tonight – a perfect time to perform the Grace of the Foolish, under the harvest moon on a warm summer’s night, when all the land lay in drowsy happiness.
- Czeisler thinks frequent problems with what he calls "drowsy driving" help explain why accidents have overtaken criminal assaults as the top cause of death among police officers.
- Czeisler thinks frequent problems with what he calls "drowsy driving" help explain why car accidents have overtaken criminal assaults as the top cause of death among police officers.
- Then she lost herself in drowsy contemplation of the soothing balm of his strength: Life poured from the ends of his fingers, driving the pain before it, or so it seemed to her, until with the easement of pain, she fell asleep and he stole away.
- You well know from observation what work the English do, and what their women; this you must imitate, and not sleep half your time and pass the rest in drowsy inactivity; these things you must do, and you will soon reap the fruits of your labour.
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