Crossword clues for sleepiest
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sleepy \Sleep"y\, a. [Compar. Sleepier; superl. Sleepiest.]
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Drowsy; inclined to, or overcome by, sleep.
--Shak.She waked her sleepy crew.
--Dryden. Tending to induce sleep; soporiferous; somniferous; as, a sleepy drink or potion.
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Dull; lazy; heavy; sluggish.
--Shak.'Tis not sleepy business; But must be looked to speedily and strongly.
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Characterized by an absence of watchfulness; as, sleepy security.
Sleepy duck (Zo["o]l.), the ruddy duck.
Wiktionary
a. (en-superlativesleepy)
WordNet
adj. ready to fall asleep; "beginning to feel sleepy"; "a sleepy-eyed child with drooping eyelids"; "sleepyheaded students" [syn: sleepy-eyed, sleepyheaded]
See sleepy
Usage examples of "sleepiest".
Or why, irrespective of all latitudes and longitudes, does the name of the White Sea exert such a spectralness over the fancy, while that of the Yellow Sea lulls us with mortal thoughts of long lacquered mild afternoons on the waves, followed by the gaudiest and yet sleepiest of sunsets?
The abrupt stirring of the fifty or so Tran in the room would be bound to draw the immediate attention of even the sleepiest of security personnel watching the monitors.
The sleepiest boy in the world would get up in his red flannel nightgown to see such a fire lighted, even if he dropped to sleep again in his chair before the ruddy blaze.
In any camp at any time of night or early morning, even in the sleepiest time just before dawn, there was always someone at least half awake, thinking about getting up to pass water, or men and women quietly copulating while their children were asleep.
Roo also knew that dawn was the most dangerous time for attack, as guards were the sleepiest and least alert and anyone contemplating a serious assault would wait for just before sunrise.
How quickly could he dispatch whatever business came to his door before the sun roused the sleepiest of heads.
Mattie hated the idea that her kids would wake up with Nicky and Lee, when the children would be at their sleepiest and sweetest, un armored and snuggly.
He, the sleepiest, dullest, most British Britisher that had ever set a pretty woman yawning, had secured a brilliant matrimonial prize for which, as all chroniclers aver, there had been many competitors.
Vernon was a very little boy he was the sleepiest of mortals, but in the spring he had seasons of bad dreams, and breakfast became an idle meal.
Rimble had decided that Mnemlith was the sleepiest world in the known universes.