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Drowsiest

Drowsy \Drow"sy\, a. [Compar. Drowsier; superl. Drowsiest.]

  1. Inclined to drowse; heavy with sleepiness; lethargic; dozy. ``When I am drowsy.''
    --Shak.

    Dapples the drowsy east with spots of gray.
    --Shak.

    To our age's drowsy blood Still shouts the inspiring sea.
    --Lowell.

  2. Disposing to sleep; lulling; soporific.

    The drowsy hours, dispensers of all good.
    --Tennyson.

  3. Dull; stupid. `` Drowsy reasoning.''
    --Atterbury.

    Syn: Sleepy; lethargic; dozy; somnolent; comatose; dull heavy; stupid.

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drowsiest

a. (en-superlative of: drowsy)

WordNet
drowsy
  1. adj. 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: drowsing(a), dozy]

  2. showing lack of attention or boredom; "the yawning congregation" [syn: oscitant, yawning(a)]

  3. [also: drowsiest, drowsier]

drowsiest

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Usage examples of "drowsiest".

Plenty of life there, though this is the drowsiest time of the year, just before hay-harvest.

It was the drowsiest of murmurs, but few things have been so welcome to me in all my life.

The six young guards, none of whom had even seen or heard a shot fired in anger, were at their drowsiest and expecting nothing but their midnight reliefs.