Definitions for sleepy

sleepy sleep·y

Spelling: [slee-pee]
IPA: /ˈsli pi/

Sleepy is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 84 anagrams from letters in sleepy (eelpsy).

Definitions for sleepy

adjective

  1. ready or inclined to sleep; drowsy.
  2. of or showing drowsiness.
  3. languid; languorous:
  4. lethargic; sluggish:
  5. quiet:
  6. inducing sleep; soporific:

Origin of sleepy

Middle English word dating back to 1175-1225; See origin at sleep, -y1

Examples for sleepy

When he was through with his work, it was late and he was sleepy.

The Indian, quieted by the sleepy Chestnut, was going steadier.

Now she is grateful for the jobs the tourist boom has brought to her once sleepy town, but admits it has taken away other jobs.

The film helps to draw scores of visitors to this sleepy river town year after year.

He was sleepy, that was all; but a sleepiness to fight against—he must still fight.

Then I grew so sleepy, that I was impatient to be shown to my bed.

But it was a shadow of its former self: sleepy, unprofitable, and not particularly confident about its complicated past.

It seemed to my sleepy eyes as if an angel had melted his own door through the wall!

Last year Fox gifted the world with the “Legend of sleepy Hollow” retelling we never knew we needed.

BIRKIANI, Georgia — Time seems to stop in this sleepy Georgian village high in the green mountains of the Pankisi Gorge.

Word Value for sleepy
Scrable

11

Words with friends

12

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