drowsily

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English

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Etymology

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From drowsy +‎ -ly.

Adverb

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drowsily (comparative more drowsily, superlative most drowsily)

  1. In a drowsy manner.
    • 1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider []”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, [], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter II (Burglary), page 378, column 1:
      She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realizing that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.