sleepy-eyed
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- adjective
- /ˈsliːpi aɪd/
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somnoliento
- She looked up, sleepy-eyed and disoriented.
- a sleepy-eyed look
- a sleepy-eyed man
- sleepy-eyed children
Examples
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The marriage enrichment class (4 to 6) has let out at the high school, its members sleepy-eyed and dazed, bound for bed again.
Fiction book (1996) -
The marriage enrichment class has let out, its members sleepy-eyed and dazed, bound for bed again.
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Even sleepy-eyed, she's so pretty it hurts, he thought.
Fiction book (1999) -
We are still stumbling, awake but sleepy-eyed.
Blog text (14) -
A sleepy-eyed physician's mate answered Austin's knock on the door of the adjoining cabin.
Fiction book (1999) -
In the end, the priest came trotting out from his house beside the church, sleepy-eyed and grumbling about being torn from his meditation by a couple of stubborn old women.
Fiction book (2000) -
The next day's morning peeked out with a kind of sleepy-eyed lateness, hung for a while, then hoisted a slow but generous sun that found Ben at Mr. Archy's place, readying the buckboard for the trip into town.
Fiction book (1996) -
Cole comes downstairs all sleepy-eyed and says, "The alarm woke me up."
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"We are all God's children," Larry tells his sleepy-eyed audience.
Synonyms
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Needing rest or sleep because you have little energy
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Feeling very tired and wanting to close your eyes
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2.7
Feeling sleepy and not fully awake, often because you are tired or bored
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Your eyes look blurred and tired because you did not sleep
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Having eyes that look tired from not enough sleep
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Feeling sleepy, slow, and not very alert
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Feeling sleepy or making you want to sleep
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Sleepy and likely to fall asleep
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Feeling sleepy or making you want to sleep
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5.3
Very tired and unable to keep your eyes open
Eyes that look tired and blurred from lack of sleep
A calm, quiet mood that makes you feel sleepy
Calm and quiet in a way that makes you feel sleepy
Having a sleepy, calm feeling that makes you relax
How Sleepy
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word sleepy-eyed is made by joining sleepy ('wanting to sleep') and eye ('the part of your face you see with'), so it literally means having eyes that look drowsy. A helpful image is a cat with half-closed eyes on a sunny windowsill because that shows the modern meaning.