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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
adj
very sleepy; strongly wanting or needing to sleep
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: hypersomnolent, nodding off, adrowse, bedroomy, dozy, dopey, dragging one's tail, drowsy, eyelids at half-mast, oscitant, out of steam, sleepbound, sleepish, sleepy, slombry, snoozy, slumberful, slumberous, slumbersome, slumbery, somniculous, somnolent, somnolescent, tired
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Marked by sleep
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
From Middle English slepeful, slepful, equivalent to sleep + -ful.
