SLEEPY (sleepier, sleepiest)

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Irregular inflected forms: sleepier    , sleepiest   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does sleepy mean? 

• SLEEPY (adjective)
  The adjective SLEEPY has 1 sense:

1. ready to fall asleep

  Familiarity information: SLEEPY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SLEEPY (adjective)

Comparative: sleepier   
Superlative: sleepiest   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Ready to fall asleep

Synonyms:

sleepy; sleepy-eyed; sleepyheaded

Context example:

sleepyheaded students

Similar:

asleep (in a state of sleep)

Derivation:

sleep (a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended)

sleepiness (a very sleepy state)

 Context examples 

She looked heavy and sleepy and pale, and far from well.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Mary was always too sleepy to join in a plot with spirit.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He was too tired to feel sleepy, and he lay, scarcely thinking, in a semi-stupor of weariness, until it was time for supper.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“Hem!” said the man, transferring his sleepy gaze to my uncle.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I was sleepy before you came.

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

“What a lovely work that was of yours! What expressions in it! I read it every word—every word. And as to feeling sleepy! Not at all!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He looked at them like a drunken man and maundered in strange, sleepy speech.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I was the only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern.

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

I am afraid that I must leave you to your own devices, as the appearance of two inquiring strangers upon a sleepy countryside might excite more gossip than I care for.

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

This won’t be a sleepy, quiet month, but quite a busy one, so you’ll have to be organized to keep up with fast-moving events.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)