dubby
- adjective
- Informal
:
somnoliento
- The long meeting left everyone feeling dubby and unfocused.
Examples
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He gets a bit dubby in the afternoons and needs a coffee to wake up.
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After the workout, I was feeling dubbier than usual.
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After staying up late, I felt especially dubby the next morning at work.
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I feel so dubby after that long meeting.
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After staying up late, I felt especially dubby the next morning at work.
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He gets a bit dubby in the afternoons and needs a coffee to wake up.
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The long meeting left everyone feeling dubby and unfocused.
Synonyms
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1.0
Needing rest or sleep because you have little energy
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2.7
Feeling sleepy and not fully awake, often because you are tired or bored
13
4.1
Feeling very tired and having no energy
3
4.0
Feeling sleepy, slow, and not very alert
1
7.8
Feeling slow and without energy
1
6.8
Feeling slow and without energy after being tired or ill
1
7.6
Slow and boring so you feel tired
Antonyms
How Energetic
Surface Forms
Morphology
dubby = dub (opaque) = dub + y
Although formally 'dub' + '-y', the sense 'tired, sluggish' is not derivable from the musical/standard senses and appears to be a dialectal/slang shift, so learners will not infer it from the base.
Etymology
Dubby may be remembered by its soft sound like dull or dozy, words that give a 'heavy' or 'slow' feeling after little sleep, and a helpful way to remember it is to imagine moving slowly and foggy in the head. So dubby means feeling tired, sleepy, or sluggish.