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Dictionary: Drow·sy

a.

[Compar. Drowsier ; superl. Drowsiest.]

1. Inclined to drowse; heavy with sleepiness; lethargic; dozy. «When I am drowsyShak.

Dapples the drowsy east with spots of gray.
Shak.

To our age's 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.» Atterbury.

Syn. -- Sleepy; lethargic; dozy; somnolent; comatose; dull heavy; stupid.


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