Inanimate vs Sleepy - What's the difference?
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Lacking the quality or ability of motion; as an inanimate object .
Not being, and never having been alive.
* {{quote-book
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(grammar) Not animate.
(obsolete) To animate.
Tired; feeling the need for sleep.
* Dryden
Suggesting tiredness.
* 1994 , (Stephen Fry), (The Hippopotamus) Chapter 2
Tending to induce sleep; soporific.
Dull; lazy; heavy; sluggish.
* William Shakespeare
Quiet; without bustle or activity.
(informal) The gum that builds up in the eye
* 1964 , Ken Kesey, Sometimes a great notion
* 1991 , Martin Amis, London fields
Inanimate is a related term of sleepy.
As adjectives the difference between inanimate and sleepy
is that inanimate is lacking the quality or ability of motion; as an inanimate object while sleepy is tired; feeling the need for sleep.As nouns the difference between inanimate and sleepy
is that inanimate is something that is not alive while sleepy is (informal) the gum that builds up in the eye.As a verb inanimate
is (obsolete) to animate .inanimate
English
Adjective
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Antonyms
* (grammar) animateVerb
(inanimat)- (John Donne)
sleepy
English
(wikipedia sleepy)Adjective
(er)- She wak'd her sleepy crew.
- At the very moment he cried out, David realised that what he had run into was only the Christmas tree. Disgusted with himself at such cowardice, he spat a needle from his mouth, stepped back from the tree and listened. There were no sounds of any movement upstairs: no shouts, no sleepy grumbles, only a gentle tinkle from the decorationsas the tree had recovered from the collision.
- a sleepy drink or potion
- 'Tis not sleepy business; / But must be looked to speedily and strongly.
- a sleepy English village
Synonyms
* tired * See alsoNoun
(-)- "Did he always leave the sleepy in his eyes?" "Never removed it; let it build up in the comers of his eyes over the weeks until it was heavy enough to fall...
- But the nightdress was heavy, the sleepy in her eyes was heavy, her hair (she made a mustache of one of its locks) was heavy and smelled of cigarettes...