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sleepy

adjective · noun

Simple meaning

Quiet; without bustle or activity.

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sleepee

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ˈslipi

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Definition

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adjective

  1. Tired; feeling the need for sleep.

  2. Suggesting tiredness.

  3. figurative

    Quiet; without bustle or activity.

  4. Tending to induce sleep.

  5. figurative

    Dull; lazy.

noun

  1. informaluncountable or in the plural

    The gum that builds up in the eye; sleep, gound.

  2. Australia

    Shingleback.

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  • “A sleepy English village.”adjective

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Word family

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  • sleepernounPerson or profession

    A rester who is sleeping.

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  • sleepy dicknounCompound term

    Common Old World herb having grasslike leaves and clusters of star-shaped white flowers with green stripes.

  • sleepy sicknessnounCompound term

    An encephalitis that was epidemic between 1915 and 1926.

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