sleepy

sleepy
adj
1. drowsy, tired, dozy, half asleep, nodding, slumberous, slumbery, somnolent, oscitant; weary, faint, fatigued, exhausted, Sl. beat, Sl. pooped.
2. languid, languorous, lazy; sluggish, torpid, lethargic, comatose.
3. quiet, inactive, passive, idle, still; dormant, sleeping, asleep, latent, hibernating, estivating, (of land) fallow.
4. soporific, somniferous, somnific, somnifacient, sleep-inducing; narcotic, sedative, opiate; hypnotic, mesmeric.

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