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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. half asleep;
- Example: "made drowsy by the long ride"
- Example: "it seemed a pity to disturb the drowsing (or dozing) professor"
- Example: "a tired dozy child"
- Example: "the nodding (or napping) grandmother in her rocking chair"
[syn: drowsy, drowsing(a), dozy]

2. showing lack of attention or boredom;
- Example: "the yawning congregation"
[syn: drowsy, oscitant, yawning(a)]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Drowsy \Drow"sy\, a. [Compar. Drowsier; superl. Drowsiest.]
   1. Inclined to drowse; heavy with sleepiness; lethargic;
      dozy. "When I am drowsy." --Shak.
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            Dapples the drowsy east with spots of gray. --Shak.
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            To our age's drowsy blood
            Still shouts the inspiring sea.       --Lowell.
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   2. Disposing to sleep; lulling; soporific.
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            The drowsy hours, dispensers of all good.
                                                  --Tennyson.
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   3. Dull; stupid. " Drowsy reasoning." --Atterbury.

   Syn: Sleepy; lethargic; dozy; somnolent; comatose; dull
        heavy; stupid.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

drowsy
    adj 1: half asleep; "made drowsy by the long ride"; "it seemed a
           pity to disturb the drowsing (or dozing) professor"; "a
           tired dozy child"; "the nodding (or napping) grandmother
           in her rocking chair" [syn: drowsy, drowsing(a),
           dozy]
    2: showing lack of attention or boredom; "the yawning
       congregation" [syn: drowsy, oscitant, yawning(a)]