'Drowsy' definitions:
Definition of 'drowsy'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Half asleep; "made drowsy by the long ride"; "it seemed a pity to disturb the drowsing (or dozing) professor"; "a tired dozy child"; "the nodding (or napping) grandmother in her rocking chair" [syn: drowsy, drowsing(a), dozy]
adjective
Showing lack of attention or boredom; "the yawning congregation" [syn: drowsy, oscitant, yawning(a)]
Definition of 'Drowsy'
From: GCIDE
- Drowsy \Drow"sy\, a. [Compar. Drowsier; superl. Drowsiest.]
- 1. Inclined to drowse; heavy with sleepiness; lethargic; dozy. "When I am drowsy." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Dapples the drowsy east with spots of gray. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- To our age's drowsy blood Still shouts the inspiring sea. --Lowell. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Disposing to sleep; lulling; soporific. [1913 Webster]
- The drowsy hours, dispensers of all good. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Dull; stupid. " Drowsy reasoning." --Atterbury.
- Syn: Sleepy; lethargic; dozy; somnolent; comatose; dull heavy; stupid. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'drowsy'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- anesthetized,
- appeasing,
- calming,
- cataleptic,
- comatose,
- cradling,
- doped,
- dozy,
- dreamy,
- drugged,
- drugged with sleep,
- gentling,
- groggy,
- half asleep,
- heavy,
- heavy with sleep,
- heavy-eyed,
- hushing,
- in a stupor,
- lackadaisical,
- languid,
- languorous,
- lazy,
- lethargic,
- listless,
- lulling,
- mollifying,
- napping,
- narcoleptic,
- narcose,
- narcotized,
- narcous,
- nodding,
- oscitant,
- out of it,
- pacifying,
- quietening,
- restful,
- rocking,
- sedated,
- sleep-drowned,
- sleep-drunk,
- sleep-filled,
- sleep-swollen,
- sleepful,
- sleepy,
- sluggish,
- slumberous,
- slumbery,
- snoozy,
- somnolent,
- soothful,
- soothing,
- soporific,
- stilling,
- stretchy,
- stuporose,
- stuporous,
- tired,
- torpid,
- tranquilizing,
- weary,
- yawning,
- yawny