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Drowsy

1. Inclined to drowse; heavy with sleepiness; lethargic; dozy. When i am drowsy. Dapples the drowsy east with spots of gray. (Shak) To our ages drowsy blood still shouts the inspiring sea. (Lowell)

2. Disposing to sleep; lulling; soporific. The drowsy hours, dispensers of all good. (Tennyson)

3. Dull; stupid. drowsy reasoning.

Synonym: sleepy, lethargic, dozy, somnolent, comatose, dull heavy, stupid.

Origin: Drowsier; Drowsiest.