sleepy

About 2.50 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Tired; feeling the need for sleep.
2. adjective Suggesting tiredness.
3. adjective Tending to induce sleep.

   a sleepy drink or potion

4. adjective Dull; lazy.
5. adjective Quiet; without bustle or activity.

   a sleepy English village

6. noun The gum that builds up in the eye; sleep, gound.
7. noun Shingleback.
8. verb To sleep.

Similar words

asleep sleepy-eyed sleepyheaded sleeping drowsy dormant soporose tired fatigued weary

Often followed by

and hollow little eyes to voice town or village

Word family

sleepier sleepiest sleepily sleepiness sleepinesses