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Drowsy   /drˈaʊzi/   Listen
adjective
Drowsy  adj.  (compar. drowsier; superl. drowsiest)  
1.
Inclined to drowse; heavy with sleepiness; lethargic; dozy. "When I am drowsy." "Dapples the drowsy east with spots of gray." "To our age's drowsy blood Still shouts the inspiring sea."
2.
Disposing to sleep; lulling; soporific. "The drowsy hours, dispensers of all good."
3.
Dull; stupid. " Drowsy reasoning."
Synonyms: Sleepy; lethargic; dozy; somnolent; comatose; dull heavy; stupid.





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"Drowsy" Quotes from Famous Books



... I will venture to say that human wisdom has never exceeded it. In this excellent institution the counting-house gave lessons to the state. The active, awakened, and enlightened principle of self-interest will provide a better system for the guard of that interest than the cold, drowsy wisdom of those who provide for a good out of themselves ever contrived for the public. The plans sketched by private prudence for private interest, the regulations by mercantile men for their mercantile purposes, when they can be applied ...
— The Works Of The Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. IX. (of 12) • Edmund Burke
... dropped off once more, and must have been dreaming as I was touched again; then the touch was repeated, and in a drowsy way I sighed with satisfaction at not having to move myself, but having some one to move me, for a great hand readied over me, and drew me along a little way, and I dreamed that I was tumbling out of bed and Esau drew me back ...
— To The West • George Manville Fenn
... grass, and deep relief of trees, began to lose their several phase and mingle into one large twilight blend. And cattle, from their milking sheds, came lowing for more pasture; and the bark of a shepherd's dog rang quick, as if his sheep were drowsy. ...
— Erema - My Father's Sin • R. D. Blackmore
... were extraordinarily blue, but the lids drooped over them so heavily that his expression was habitually drowsy, even stolid. In build, he was short and thick-set, like a bulldog; and there seemed to be something of a bulldog's strength in the breadth of his chest, though there was no hint of energy about him ...
— The Swindler and Other Stories • Ethel M. Dell
... and the stiff hands acquired their old flexibility. His face stung at first, but he rubbed ice over it, and presently it too responded to the grateful heat. An immense comfort seized him and he felt drowsy. Comfort would become luxury if he could lie down and sleep, but he knew too much to yield to the demands of his body. After spending two hours by the fire and becoming thoroughly soaked in heat, he put out the coals and went on again. As he ...
— The Eyes of the Woods - A story of the Ancient Wilderness • Joseph A. Altsheler


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