Sleepy (Adjective)
Meaning
Ready to fall asleep; "beginning to feel sleepy"; "a sleepy-eyed child with drooping eyelids"; "sleepyheaded students".
Classification
All adjective clusters.
Examples
- The child was getting sleepy and was led to her bedroom by her mother.
- After a long day of traveling, Sarah was beginning to feel sleepy and decided to take a nap.
- The sleepy-eyed child with drooping eyelids stumbled into the kitchen to ask for breakfast.
- The sleepyheaded students struggled to stay awake during the early morning lecture.
- As the night wore on, the crowd grew sleepy and began to disperse, heading home to their beds.