sleepy

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  Rhymes: -iːpi

Adjective

sleepy (comparative sleepier, superlative sleepiest)

1. Tired; feeling the need for sleep.
2. Suggesting tirednes.
   • 1994, Stephen Fry, The Hippopotamus Chapter 2

     At the very moment he cried out, David realised that what he had run into was only the Christmas tree. Disgusted with himself at such cowardice, he spat a needle from his mouth, stepped back from the tree and listened. There were no sounds of any movement upstairs: no shouts, no sleepy grumbles, only a gentle tinkle from the decorationsas the tree had recovered from the collision.

Synonyms

• tired
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Translations

feeling the need for sleep

Arabic: نعسان (ar) (naʿsān) Bulgarian: сънлив (bg) (sǎnliv) Chinese: Mandarin: 想睡 (zh) (xiǎngshuì), 昏昏欲睡 (zh) (hūnhūnyùshuì), 睏 (zh), 困 (zh) (kùn) Min Nan: 啄龜 (tok-ku), 盹瞌睡 (tuh-ka-tsuē) Czech: ospalý (cs) m. Danish: søvnig (da) Dutch: slaperig (nl) Finnish: uninen (fi), unelias (fi) French: somnolent (fr) m., endormi (fr), ensomeillé (fr) m., ensuqué (fr) German: schläfrig (de) Greek: νυσταγμένος (el), νυσταλέος (el) Hungarian: álmos (hu) Indonesian: mengantuk (id), ngantuk (id) Irish: expressed by a phrase using the noun codladh (ga) m. ("sleep")

Japanese: 眠い (ja) (ねむい, nemui), 眠たい (ja) (ねむたい, nemutai) Kurdish: Sorani: خه‌و هاتن (ku) (xew hatin) Norwegian: trett (no), døsig (no), søvnig (no) Polish: senny (pl), śpiący (pl) Portuguese: sonolento (pt), com sono (pt) Romanian: somnoros (ro), somnolent (ro) m. and n. Russian: сонный (ru) (sónnyj), сонливый (ru) (sonlívyj), заспанный (ru) (záspannyj) Scottish Gaelic: suaineach (gd) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: поспан (sh), сањив (sh), дремљив (sh) Roman: pospan (sh), sanjiv (sh), dremljiv (sh) Spanish: cansado (es), adormecido (es), sueño (es) Swedish: trött (sv), sömnig (sv), pömsig (sv) Tagalog: inaantok (tl)

Noun

sleepy (uncountable)

1. (informal) The gum that builds up in the eye
   • 1964, Ken Kesey, Sometimes a great notion

     "Did he always leave the sleepy in his eyes?" "Never removed it; let it build up in the comers of his eyes over the weeks until it was heavy enough to fall...

   • 1991, Martin Amis, London fields

     But the nightdress was heavy, the sleepy in her eyes was heavy, her hair (she made a mustache of one of its locks) was heavy and smelled of cigarettes...