sleep

sleep

noun

Definition of SLEEP

1

a natural periodic loss of consciousness during which the body restores itself <neither of them has been getting much sleep since the baby was born>

Synonyms bed, catnapping, dozing, napping, repose, rest, resting, shut-eye, slumber, slumbering, snoozing, z's (or zs)

Related Words catnap, doze, drowse, forty winks, nap, siesta, snooze, wink; oversleeping; dreaming, rapid eye movement

Near Antonyms insomnia, sleeplessness

Antonyms consciousness, wake, wakefulness

2

the state of being dead <a grieving widower longing to join his beloved wife in her eternal sleep>

Synonyms dead, deadness, grave, lifelessness, nothingness, sleep

Related Words mortality

Near Antonyms immortality; life span, lifetime

Antonyms existence, life

3

the permanent stopping of all the vital bodily activities <regretfully put their terminally ill dog to sleep>

Synonyms curtains, decease, demise, dissolution, doom, end, exit, expiration, expiry, fate, grave, great divide, passage, passing, quietus, sleep

Related Words casualty, fatality; martyrdom, self-destruction, self-murder, self-slaughter, suicide; annihilation, destruction, ending, extermination, ruin; assassination, execution, killing, massacre, slaughter

Near Antonyms existence, life; creation, genesis, origination, rise

Antonyms birth, nativity