half asleep

adjective

: not completely awake : very tired

I was half asleep when you called.

Examples of half asleep in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The Stars immediately celebrated, and the goal woke up what had been a comfy’ American Airlines Center crowd that sounded half asleep. —Mac Engel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 May 2025

Declan, who seems half asleep still, moves over to make space for his sister. —Mohammed Soliman, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Apr. 2025

Nena Farrell 9 hours ago Maxi-Cosi’s Baby Monitor Uses AI to Translate Baby’s Cries There’s nothing like the joy of new parenthood–or the stress of having a crying baby in the middle of the night and trying to determine what’s wrong while half asleep. —Condé Nast, WIRED, 5 Aug. 2023

Because each individual bird is constantly alternating between sleep and wakefulness, the entire group is at all times only half asleep, and also remains half awake. —Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023

Lucid dreaming is real, though Aspy says for most of history people believed it could just be explained away by vivid imaginations or being half asleep, half awake. —USA TODAY, 11 July 2023

Rhymes for half asleep

• beep
• cheap
• creep
• deep
• heap
• jeep
• keep
• leap
• peep
• reap
• seep
• sheep