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sleepy

/slee-pee/US // ˈsli pi //UK // (ˈsliːpɪ) //

昏昏欲睡,困了,昏昏欲睡的,瞌睡

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    sleep·i·er, sleep·i·est.

    • : ready or inclined to sleep; drowsy.
    • : of or showing drowsiness.
    • : languid; languorous:a sleepy gesture.
    • : lethargic; sluggish: a sleepy brook.
    • : quiet: a sleepy village.
    • : inducing sleep; soporific: sleepy warmth.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.tired, dull

Examples

  • The heat of the day was making me sleepy, so I opened my windows and turned up my music, intending to stop at the next pullout to take a nap and revive myself before continuing.

  • They also make people sleepy, reduce pain and make people feel good.

  • Rapid growth has strained resources in the sleepy, rural town, and RV camps—which locals refer to as “man camps”—have been set up for oil workers and their families.

  • These top athletes have tricks to get even the sleepiest out of bed for an outing you won’t regret.

  • Even when Redfield was allowed to speak publicly, his sleepy eyes and soft, droning tone anesthetized listeners.

  • The film helps to draw scores of visitors to this sleepy river town year after year.

  • BIRKIANI, Georgia — Time seems to stop in this sleepy Georgian village high in the green mountains of the Pankisi Gorge.

  • Last year Fox gifted the world with the “Legend of Sleepy Hollow” retelling we never knew we needed.

  • But it was a shadow of its former self: sleepy, unprofitable, and not particularly confident about its complicated past.

  • It turned out that I had dozens of sleep interruptions during the night, which likely caused me to feel sleepy in the morning.

  • Sondershausen is a dreamy, sleepy place, with so little life about it that you hardly realize there are any people there at all.

  • He ate as many as he wanted and then, as he always felt sleepy after he had eaten, he thought he would lie down and have a nap.

  • Her eyes gleamed bright and intense, with no sleepy shadows, as they looked into his.

  • So, although he was tired and sleepy from the excitement of the day, he began to tell of his visit to Manila when a young man.

  • Not a word was spoken, for the driver had grown sleepy, and Sikes was in no mood to lead him into conversation.