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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Ross Rosenfeld, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Apr. 2025
Alice finds herself on the sleepy Little Crescent Island, hoping to interview mysterious heiress Margaret Ives.
—Maya Layne, Vogue, 22 Apr. 2025
His dad was a stiff-upper-lip kind of guy, and Clint became known as the stoic kid with the sleepy brown eyes.
—Jenni Carlson, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2025
One year out from Randall’s accident, Staten’s barely starting to get out from under his grief, with the patient and persistent support of Quinn (Minka Kelly), his late wife’s best friend and the owner of what appears to be the only bar in the sleepy Texan town of Ransom Canyon.
—Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 17 Apr. 2025
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 4 May. 2025.
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