'Napping' definitions:
Definition of 'napping'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Not prepared or vigilant; "the blow caught him napping"; "caught in an off-guard moment"; "found him off his guard" [syn: napping, off-guard(a), off guard(p), off one's guard(p), off his guard, off her guard, off your guard]
Definition of 'Napping'
From: GCIDE
- Nap \Nap\ (n[a^]p), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Napped (n[a^]pt); p. pr. & vb. n. Napping (n[a^]p"p[i^]ng).] [OE. nappen, AS. hn[ae]ppian to take a nap, to slumber; cf. AS. hnipian to bend one's self, Icel. hnipna, hn[imac]pa, to droop.]
- 1. To have a short sleep; to be drowsy; to doze. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To be in a careless, secure state; to be unprepared; as, to be caught napping. --Wyclif. [1913 Webster +PJC]
- I took thee napping, unprepared. --Hudibras. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Napping'
From: GCIDE
- Napping \Nap"ping\, n.
- 1. The act or process of raising a nap, as on cloth. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Hat Making) A sheet of partially felted fur before it is united to the hat body. --Knight. [1913 Webster]
- 3. The act or process of having a short sleep; as, napping is a common occupation for cats. [PJC]
Synonyms of 'napping'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- a stranger to,
- absent,
- absentminded,
- absorbed,
- abstracted,
- anesthetized,
- asleep,
- bemused,
- blind to,
- castle-building,
- cataleptic,
- caught napping,
- comatose,
- daydreaming,
- daydreamy,
- dead to,
- deaf to,
- doped,
- dozy,
- dreaming,
- dreamy,
- drowsing,
- drowsy,
- drugged,
- drugged with sleep,
- ecstatic,
- elsewhere,
- engrossed,
- faraway,
- goofing off,
- half asleep,
- half-awake,
- heavy,
- heavy with sleep,
- heavy-eyed,
- impercipient,
- in a reverie,
- in a stupor,
- in ignorance of,
- in the clouds,
- incautious,
- incognizant,
- insensible,
- insensible to,
- languid,
- lethargic,
- lost,
- lost in thought,
- meditative,
- mindless,
- mooning,
- moonraking,
- museful,
- musing,
- narcoleptic,
- narcose,
- narcotized,
- narcous,
- nodding,
- nonconceiving,
- not with it,
- oblivious,
- off-guard,
- oscitant,
- out of it,
- pensive,
- pipe-dreaming,
- preoccupied,
- rapt,
- sedated,
- sleep-drowned,
- sleep-drunk,
- sleep-filled,
- sleep-swollen,
- sleepful,
- sleeping,
- sleepy,
- slumberous,
- slumbery,
- snoozy,
- somewhere else,
- somnolent,
- soporific,
- stargazing,
- stretchy,
- stuporose,
- stuporous,
- taken up,
- transported,
- unalert,
- unaware,
- unaware of,
- uncautious,
- unconscious,
- unconscious of,
- unguarded,
- unhearing,
- uninsightful,
- unknowing,
- unmindful,
- unmindful of,
- unperceiving,
- unprehensive,
- unprepared,
- unready,
- unrealizing,
- unseeing,
- unsuspecting,
- unvigilant,
- unwary,
- unwatchful,
- unwitting,
- witless,
- woolgathering,
- wrapped in thought,
- yawning,
- yawny