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Drowsiest vs Frowsiest - What's the difference?

drowsiest | frowsiest |

As adjectives the difference between drowsiest and frowsiest

is that drowsiest is (drowsy) while frowsiest is (frowsy).

drowsiest

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (drowsy)

    • drowsy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Inclined to drowse; heavy with sleepiness; lethargic; dozy.
    • I was feeling drowsy and so decided to make a cup of coffee to try to wake myself up.
  • Disposing to sleep; lulling; soporific.
    • It was a warm, drowsy summer afternoon.
  • Dull; stupid.

    • Derived terms

    * drowsiness

    frowsiest

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (frowsy)

    • frowsy

    English

    Alternative forms

    * frowzy

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Having a dingy, neglected, and scruffy appearance.
  • * 1949 , George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four , p. 9
    • He had seen it lying in the window of a frowsy little junk-shop in a slummy quarter of the town (just what quarter he did not now remember) and had been stricken immediately by an overwhelming desire to possess it.