adjective (sleepier, sleepiest)
1 needing sleep; ready to go to sleep:
a sleepy child * He had begun to feel sleepy. * The heat and the wine made her sleepy.
2 (of places) quiet and where nothing much happens:
a sleepy little town
sleepily adverb:
She yawned sleepily.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for sleepy is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does sleepy appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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