1
as in sleepy
desiring or needing sleep
the drowsy students shuffled into the first-period class
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as in hypnotic
tending to cause sleep
listened to drowsy music while waiting in the dentist's office
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Recent Examples of drowsy
Last night’s episode never recovered from its drowsy start.
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Charu Sinha, Vulture, 2 Nov. 2025
Most cases clear up on their own without complications, but parents should contact a doctor if a child cannot keep fluids down, has a high fever lasting more than a few days or seems unusually drowsy or irritable.
—Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 29 Oct. 2025
Participants who showed the signal woke up less drowsy than those without it.
—Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 17 Oct. 2025
Back in the 1870s, Fort Worth was said to be such a sleepy, drowsy town that a mountain lion slept in the street.
—Matt Leclercq, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 July 2025
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Charu Sinha, Vulture, 2 Nov. 2025
Most cases clear up on their own without complications, but parents should contact a doctor if a child cannot keep fluids down, has a high fever lasting more than a few days or seems unusually drowsy or irritable.
—Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 29 Oct. 2025
Participants who showed the signal woke up less drowsy than those without it.
—Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 17 Oct. 2025
Back in the 1870s, Fort Worth was said to be such a sleepy, drowsy town that a mountain lion slept in the street.
—Matt Leclercq, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for drowsy
Adjective
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Her baffling disappearance has gripped the nation, leading many Americans to question how an octogenarian leading a sleepy life in the Southwest was taken while her neighbors were asleep.—
Chris Kenning,
USA Today,
4 Feb. 2026
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In 2020, however, narcos invaded the sleepy rancho and robbed, killed and kidnapped with abandon.—
Andrew J. Campa,
Los Angeles Times,
3 Feb. 2026
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Universal wrapped the coaster cars in a hypnotic geometric black-and-white zebra design to obscure the ride vehicles.—
Brady MacDonald,
Oc Register,
5 Feb. 2026
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Other artists of this era sought to intervene, guerrilla style, in the apparatuses of advertising, in order to shake consumers from their hypnotic slumber.—
Michael Cowan,
Artforum,
1 Feb. 2026
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This is a condition where, due to stress or hormonal changes, the body puts the hair follicles into a resting phase.—
Essence,
Essence,
19 Dec. 2025
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Taking minoxidil orally can support the hair follicle cycle and trigger anagen (the resting phase) prematurely.—
Jessie Quinn,
Flow Space,
23 Sep. 2025
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“Drowsy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/drowsy. Accessed 9 Feb. 2026.
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