sleepier; sleepiest
1
a
: ready to fall asleep
b
: of, relating to, or characteristic of sleep
2
: sluggish as if from sleep : lethargic
also
: having little activity
a sleepy coastal village
3
: sleep-inducing
Examples of sleepy in a Sentence
She felt sleepy and went to bed.
the sleepy children were carried up to bed
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American restaurant Third Street Social opened Thursday, bringing a steady crowd to downtown Olathe, which has been long known as a sleepy area.
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Kansas City Star, 4 May 2026
In those sleepy unstaffed stations, passengers routinely board and the train starts moving again before the conductor ever makes contact or scans their tickets.
—CBS News, 1 May 2026
Even that session left me enervated and sleepy.
—Betsy Andrews, Travel + Leisure, 28 Apr. 2026
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—Katie Tarasov, CNBC, 23 Apr. 2026
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Kansas City Star, 4 May 2026
In those sleepy unstaffed stations, passengers routinely board and the train starts moving again before the conductor ever makes contact or scans their tickets.
—CBS News, 1 May 2026
Even that session left me enervated and sleepy.
—Betsy Andrews, Travel + Leisure, 28 Apr. 2026
The once-sleepy CPU market has taken off as agentic workloads shift compute needs beyond Nvidia's graphics processing units (GPUs) that have ruled AI thus far.
—Katie Tarasov, CNBC, 23 Apr. 2026
See All Example Sentences for sleepy
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“Sleepy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sleepy. Accessed 5 May. 2026.
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