FAST ASLEEP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fast asleep mean? 

• FAST ASLEEP (adjective)
  The adjective FAST ASLEEP has 1 sense:

1. sleeping deeply

  Familiarity information: FAST ASLEEP used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAST ASLEEP (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sleeping deeply

Synonyms:

fast asleep; sound asleep

Context example:

it would be cruel to wake him; he's sound asleep

Similar:

asleep (in a state of sleep)

 Context examples 

So the dog stretched himself out on the road, and fell fast asleep.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

In spite of the swaying of the house and the wailing of the wind, Dorothy soon closed her eyes and fell fast asleep.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Mina is fast asleep, and looks a little too pale; her eyes look as though she had been crying.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He threw himself down upon his pallet and in an instant was fast asleep.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was fast asleep; lying, easily, with his head upon his arm, as I had often seen him lie at school.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She's fast asleep, so I won't wake her to ask leave.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Hour after hour passed away, and the wearied Catherine had heard three proclaimed by all the clocks in the house before the tempest subsided or she unknowingly fell fast asleep.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

When he came I was fast asleep, my clothes fallen off on one side, and my shirt above my waist.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I went down the stairs and into the hall, where I found the commissionnaire fast asleep in his box, with the kettle boiling furiously upon the spirit-lamp.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is excusable, for she had a hard life of it: but still it was dangerous; for when Mrs. Poole was fast asleep after the gin and water, the mad lady, who was as cunning as a witch, would take the keys out of her pocket, let herself out of her chamber, and go roaming about the house, doing any wild mischief that came into her head.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)