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Drowsy   /drˈaʊzi/   Listen
adjective
Drowsy  adj.  (compar. drowsier; superl. drowsiest)  
1.
Inclined to drowse; heavy with sleepiness; lethargic; dozy. "When I am drowsy." "Dapples the drowsy east with spots of gray." "To our age's drowsy blood Still shouts the inspiring sea."
2.
Disposing to sleep; lulling; soporific. "The drowsy hours, dispensers of all good."
3.
Dull; stupid. " Drowsy reasoning."
Synonyms: Sleepy; lethargic; dozy; somnolent; comatose; dull heavy; stupid.





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"Drowsy" Quotes from Famous Books



... were frequent. And little pellets of hail were thickening the air. And over the tarpaulin that covered her the ice was making. Sailin' by the wind, 'tis terrible cold. She was becoming drowsy—hard work to keep from falling asleep. Good enough for her—ay, good enough, her father would say—dancin' half the night and carryin' messages to ...
— Sonnie-Boy's People • James B. Connolly
... current of things is far from musical, and the issues greatly disappointing. The drowsy Justice which we expect and wish to see awakened, and set in living harmony with Mercy, apparently relapses at last into a deeper sleep than ever. Our loyalty to Womanhood is not a little wounded by the humiliations ...
— Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. • H. N. Hudson
... nor the warm sky; his consciousness began to throb again, on the very instant, with a sense of his wrong. He got out of the train half an hour before it reached Geneva, in the cold morning twilight, at the station indicated in Valentin's telegram. A drowsy station-master was on the platform with a lantern, and the hood of his overcoat over his head, and near him stood a gentleman who advanced to meet Newman. This personage was a man of forty, with a tall lean figure, a sallow ...
— The American • Henry James
... the dramas of AEschylus, for at Fontainebleau where he spent some later weeks of the year these were the special subject of his study. It was at Saint-Aubin in 1872 that he found the materials for his poem of the following year, and to Miss Thackeray's drowsy name for ...
— Robert Browning • Edward Dowden
... a day in June when David believed he never in this world could get through with it. He heard the chuck and drowsy clack of the sprinkling-wagon as it ponderously advanced upon its lazy way; he heard the almost whispered clucking of a mother-hen who was calling her chicks to come shuffle with her in the cool loose earth under the shade of the crooked old apple-tree, and ...
— A Melody in Silver • Keene Abbott


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