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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
drowsy
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a drowsy rice-farming village
▪ Cold medicines can make you feel drowsy.
▪ Len had drunk too much wine, and he felt cosy and drowsy in spite of the coffee.
▪ You shouldn't drive after taking these pills - they can make you drowsy.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But it was enough to make all the garden's inhabitants drowsy, Caroline thought, yawning.
▪ Dmitri was still in bed, drowsy.
▪ He felt cozy and drowsy, in spite of the espresso.
▪ He had regained consciousness, but was drowsy and uncomfortable.
▪ How happy they had been together, he and she and the little lad in the drowsy heat of the meadows.
▪ I began to feel drowsy and wondered about the hedgerow broth.
▪ The stove warms the tent up and we become drowsy, and oblivious to the storm outside.
▪ They were hospitalized after they became drowsy and dizzy.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Drowsy

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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
drowsy

1520s, probably ultimately from Old English drusan, drusian "sink," also "become languid, slow, or inactive" (related to dreosan "to fall"), from Proto-Germanic *drus- (see dreary). But there is no record of it in Middle English. Related: Drowsily; drowsiness.

Wiktionary
drowsy

a. 1 Inclined to drowse; heavy with sleepiness; lethargic; dozy. 2 Disposing to sleep; lulling; soporific. 3 dull; stupid.

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]

Usage examples of "drowsy".

Maynooth, I was drowsy, floating uneasily between waking and sleeping across the rolling miles of bogland, past windbreaks of pale trees and haggard-looking farmhouses with empty eyes.

Up from well before sunrise to iong after dark, drowsy on some uncomfortable cot in a lousy communal shed, Easter decided that traveling was an overrated experience and longed for the comforts of the little shack that was home.

Duncan smiled as he looked down on the already drowsy form of Natasha Ralentov as she lay in her cryonic chamber alongside the other nine.

Shadows congregated here, and in the gloom Domini saw a bent white figure hunched against the blackened wall, and heard an old voice murmuring like a drowsy bee.

The lantern turned down an alley between two dovecotes cooing and fluttering with the drowsy surprise of those within.

Silver-bellies, fast as darts, shot away at his approach, while the big drowsy mudcats wog-gled out of his way, wondering what he was.

He smells the sweet fragrance of that lavish countryside, he hears the oaths, the jests, the laughter of the marching soldiers, he hears the cricketing stitch of noon in drowsy fields, the myriad woodnotes, secret, green, and cool, the thrumming noises.

Michael had now ended his ditty, and nothing was heard but the drowsy murmur of the breeze among the woods, and its light flutter, as it blew freshly into the carriage.

I would have stayed with her longer but I was worried about Arch. He had been very drowsy when I had told him of the impending trip to the hospital.

Some of the dinosaurs even felt drowsy, as their nervous systems reacted to the reduced level of light.

A cry more prolonged than the others and ending in a series of groans effectually roused me from my drowsy lethargy.

They went outdoors again, where the crickets and katydids were chirping in the grass, and the drowsy twitter of birds came from the maples above.

Little did the sleeping Yeomen in the tents, or the drowsy outposts upon the crest, think of the terrible Christmas visitors who were creeping on to them, or of the grim morning gift which Santa Claus was bearing.

Deep languor overcometh mind and frame: A listless, drowsy, utter weariness, A trance wherein no thought finds speech or name, The overstrained spirit doth possess.

As he reclined in the corner of the broad window-seat, his feet up, and drowsy, of a summer afternoon, he heard the languid cawing of an occasional rook, for rooks are idle in the heated hours of the day.