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Synonyms for sleep
slipsleep
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
sleep
Ease denotes freedom from cause of disturbance, whether external or internal. Quiet denotes freedom from agitation, or especially from annoying sounds. Rest is a cessation of activity especially of wearying or painful activity. Recreation is some pleasing activity of certain organs or faculties that affords rest to other parts of our nature that have become weary. Repose is a laying down, primarily of the body, and figuratively a similar freedom from toil or strain of mind. Repose is more complete than rest; a pause is a momentary cessation of activity; a black-smith finds a temporary rest while the iron is heating, but he does not yield to repose; in a pause of battle a soldier rests on his arms; after the battle the victor reposes on his laurels. Sleep is the perfection of repose, the most complete rest; slumber is a light and ordinarily pleasant form of sleep. In the figurative sense, rest of mind, soul, conscience, is not mere cessation of activity, but a pleasing, tranquil relief from all painful and wearying activity; repose is even more deep, tranquil, and complete.
Synonyms:
calm, calmness, cessation, ease, intermission, pause, peace, peacefulness, quiescence, quiet, quietness, quietude, recreation, repose, rest, slumber, stay, stillness, stop, tranquillityAntonyms:
agitation, commotion, disquiet, disturbance, excitement, motion, movement, restlessness, rush, stir, strain, toil, tumult, unrest, work
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
Princeton's WordNet
sleep, slumbernoun
a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended
"he didn't get enough sleep last night"; "calm as a child in dreamless slumber"
Synonyms:
eternal sleep, nap, sopor, eternal rest, quietus, slumber, restAntonyms:
wakesleep, sopornoun
a torpid state resembling deep sleep
Synonyms:
eternal sleep, nap, sopor, eternal rest, quietus, slumber, restAntonyms:
wakesleep, napnoun
a period of time spent sleeping
"he felt better after a little sleep"; "there wasn't time for a nap"
Synonyms:
eternal sleep, nap, sopor, eternal rest, snooze, quietus, pile, cat sleep, slumber, forty winks, short sleep, rest, catnapAntonyms:
wakerest, eternal rest, sleep, eternal sleep, quietusverb
euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb)
"she was laid to rest beside her husband"; "they had to put their family pet to sleep"
Synonyms:
remainder, relief, sopor, relaxation, respite, repose, balance, ease, residuum, rest, rest period, residual, nap, eternal sleep, residue, eternal rest, slumber, quietusAntonyms:
wakesleep, kip, slumber, log Z's, catch some Z'sverb
be asleep
Synonyms:
kip, catch some Z's, slumber, log Z'sAntonyms:
wakesleepverb
be able to accommodate for sleeping
"This tent sleeps six people"
Synonyms:
kip, catch some Z's, slumber, log Z'sAntonyms:
wake
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
sleepverb
Synonyms:
SLUMBER, doze, drowse, nap, repose, fall asleep, drop asleep, take a nap, SIESTAsleepnoun
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
sleepnoun
Synonyms:
slumber, repose, nap, doze, drowse, snooze, dozing, siesta, dormancy, lethargy, trance, sopor, coma, carus, somnipathy, somnolism, dogsleepAssociated words:
hypnology, hypnotic, agrypnotic, hypnosis, hypnotism, narcotic, opiate, dwale, somniloquence, somniloquism, somnial, somniferous, hypnophobia, hypnogogic, stupefacient, mesmeric, soporific, dormitive, soporiferous, soporous, somnific, somnolent, somniloquous, antihypnotic, morphean, oversleep, morphine, narcosis, lullaby, incubation, hypnogenic, mara, morpheus, hypnos, somnus, dormitory, diurnation, cubicle, insomniac, hibernation, somnipathist, somniloquist, agrypnia, wake, awakensleepverb
Synonyms:
slumber, repose, doze, drowse, lie dormant, hibernate, lodge
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Words popularity by usage frequency
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#594 | night | |
#1001 | stay | |
#1038 | stop | |
#1260 | bed | |
#1547 | rest | |
#1720 | peace | |
#1963 | balance | |
#2390 | dream | |
#2587 | recreation | |
#2705 | sleep | |
#2899 | layer | |
#2940 | relief | |
#4205 | quiet | |
#4819 | ease | |
#5067 | suspension | |
#5468 | sleeping | |
#5914 | bedding | |
#7387 | calm | |
#9174 | remainder | |
#9757 | relaxation | |
#10302 | pile | |
#10431 | residual | |
#10611 | pause | |
#11647 | asleep | |
#12190 | shutdown | |
#13084 | residue | |
#15456 | nap | |
#15849 | slept | |
#16872 | cessation | |
#18415 | hanger | |
#22368 | respite | |
#24506 | kip | |
#26916 | hibernate | |
#31404 | sor | |
#31405 | slumber | |
#34313 | intermission | |
#38211 | repose | |
#38525 | tranquillity | |
#39604 | snooze | |
#41436 | stillness | |
#48860 | dodo | |
#59580 | calmness | |
#68540 | quietness | |
#74481 | doze | |
#91317 | quietude | |
#105279 | peacefulness | |
#109877 | quiescence | |
#192178 | residuum | |
#221707 | quietus | |
#234506 | catnap | |
#282476 | sopor |
How to use sleep in a sentence?
This sleep irregularity may be even more common among younger people, younger people may have more demands from study and from work, and those may also influence whether they can have a regular sleep pattern or not.
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
You ca n’t sleep, when you lay down, you start thinking about those that did n’t come back.
Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia - denouncing the evils of slavery:
Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever.
Stuart Would ya look at the size of that kid's head It's the size of a planetoid and it has it's own weather system Looks like an orange on a toothpick I'm not kidding, that boy's head is like Sputnik spherical but quite pointy at parts He'll be crying himself to sleep tonight, on his huge pillow.
Translations for sleep
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- ينامArabic
- spátCzech
- søvnDanish
- SchlafGerman
- ύπνοςGreek
- dormuEsperanto
- sueñoSpanish
- خوابPersian
- nukkuaFinnish
- dormirFrench
- codladhIrish
- नींदHindi
- alvásHungarian
- ք� ելArmenian
- tidurIndonesian
- dormireItalian
- לִישׁוֹןHebrew
- 睡眠Japanese
- ನಿದ್ರೆKannada
- 잠Korean
- somnumLatin
- slaapDutch
- soveNorwegian
- senPolish
- dormirPortuguese
- dormiRomanian
- спатьRussian
- sovaSwedish
- தூங்குTamil
- నిద్రTelugu
- นอนThai
- uykuTurkish
- сонUkrainian
- نیندUrdu
- ngủVietnamese
- 睡觉Chinese
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