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Dozy vs Lethargic - What's the difference?

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Dozy is a related term of lethargic.


As adjectives the difference between dozy and lethargic

is that dozy is quite sleepy or tired while lethargic is sluggish, slow.

dozy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Quite sleepy or tired.
  • Intellectually slow.
  • Jim is a dozy child.
  • (carpentry) Decaying, rotten, spongy (wood).
  • Synonyms

    * doty (rotten wood)

    lethargic

    English

    Alternative forms

    * lethargick (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • sluggish, slow
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=1960 , author= , title=(Jeeves in the Offing) , section=chapter VII , passage=[That cat] hasn't caught a mouse since he was a slip of a kitten. Except when eating, he does nothing but sleep. Lethargic is the word that springs to the lips. If you cast an eye on him, you will see that he's asleep now.}}
  • indifferent, apathetic
  • Synonyms

    * torpid * lazy * unmoving