Synonyms for sleepy
ˈsli pisleep·y

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1. sleepyadjective

   Synonyms:
   tired

2. sleepyadjective

   Tired; feeling the need for sleep.

   Synonyms:
   tired

3. sleepyadjective

   Suggesting tiredness.

   Synonyms:
   tired

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1. sleepy

   Synonyms:
   slumberous, somnolent, drowsy, sluggish, lazy

   Antonyms:
   wakeful, vigilant, alert, awake, active

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1. sleepy, sleepy-eyed, sleepyheadedadjective

   ready to fall asleep

   "beginning to feel sleepy"; "a sleepy-eyed child with drooping eyelids"; "sleepyheaded students"

   Synonyms:
   sleepyheaded, sleepy-eyed

   Antonyms:
   awake(p)

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1. sleepyadjective

   Synonyms:
   drowsy, somnolent, dozy, heavy, inclined to sleep

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1. sleepyadjective

   Synonyms:
   drowsy, somnolent, dozy, soporiferous, somniferous, soporific, dormitive, narcotic, somnific, hypnotic, dormant, sluggish, lethargic, torpid, dull

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1. List of paraphrases for "sleepy":

   dungeness, drowsy, asleep, tired

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1. Kris Permentier:

   You feel sleepy, dizzy, but you don't have the intention to open up the air, you don't have the strength [ or ] the brain capacity to open up the doors or the windows.

2. Tiger Woods:

   Boy, it was nice to turn the round completely around there, they were into it early. Towards the back nine it started getting a little sparse. I think they might have tipped back a couple and got a little sleepy.

3. Donald Trump:

   It’s 1999, I’m on Meet the Press, a show now headed by sleepy-eyes Chuck Todd, he’s a sleeping son of a bitch, I’ll tell you.

4. Suzan Mazor:

   Young children react differently to marijuana -- different than adults or teens usually do, they're more likely to be sleepy, with difficulty walking and extreme confusion after an exposure to marijuana. Also, since kids are smaller, they get a bigger dose per pound of body weight from the same-size edible product, so they are more likely to have severe effects.

5. President Trump:

   The Bidens got rich -- and that is substantiated -- while America got robbed, sleepy Joe and his friends sold out America. ... And in a brand new report, just came out as Im walking on the stage, it turns out that when Joe Biden was vice president -- he worked with the so-called whistleblower. This is nothing more than a partisan witch hunt, sabotage, and Im sure theyre going to say, totally unsubstantiated.