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Synonyms for asleep
əˈslipasleep

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Wiktionary4.5 / 2 votes

  1. asleepadjective

    Antonyms:
    awake

  2. asleepadjective

    Antonyms:
    awake

  3. asleepadjective

    How could you miss that? Were you asleep?

    Antonyms:
    awake

  4. asleepadjective

    My arm fell asleep. You know, like pins and needles.

    Antonyms:
    awake

  5. asleepadjective

    Antonyms:
    awake

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. asleep(p)adjective

    in a state of sleep

    "were all asleep when the phone rang"; "fell asleep at the wheel"

    Antonyms:
    live, sensible, alive(p), sensitive

  2. asleep(p), benumbed, numbadjective

    lacking sensation

    "my foot is asleep"; "numb with cold"

    Antonyms:
    sensible, live, alive(p), sensitive

  3. asleep(p), at peace(p), at rest(p), deceased, departed, goneadverb

    dead

    "he is deceased"; "our dear departed friend"

    Antonyms:
    alive(p), sensible, sensitive, live

  4. asleepadverb

    into a sleeping state

    "he fell asleep"

    Antonyms:
    alive(p), sensitive, sensible, live

  5. asleepadverb

    in the sleep of death

    Antonyms:
    sensible, live, alive(p), sensitive

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. asleepadjective

    Synonyms:
    sleeping, fast asleep, in a sound sleep, in the arms of morpheus, gone to the land of nod

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "asleep":

    sor, sleeping, sleepy, sleep, numb, behemoth, sleeps

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#42106behemoth

How to use asleep in a sentence?

  1. William Temple:

    When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.

  2. ― Dr. Seuss:

    You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”

  3. Jeff Miller:

    No veteran in crisis should ever have to wait for service or be transferred without a positive handoff, told to call another organization, or -- worst of all -- have their call terminated without receiving any assistance, the larger issue is that this situation shows that the VA employees in charge of running the crisis line were asleep at the switch -- utterly unfamiliar with the day-to-day operations of the program.

  4. Trooper Darren Wright:

    We do suspect the driver fell asleep.

  5. Chris Breitigan:

    I ’ll be right on the verge of falling asleep and it’s like someone tickles me, it starts from my back and moves down through my legs. I startle and get a sort of jerk in my body.


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