Sleepy vs Awake - What's the difference?
sleepy | awake |
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
(label) To become conscious after having slept.
* (1904-1989):
*:Each morning when I awake , I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.
(label) To cause (somebody) to stop sleeping.
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*:Thenne she called the heremyte syre Vlfyn I am a gentylwoman that wold speke with the knyght whiche is with yow / Thenne the good man awaked Galahad / & badde hym aryse and speke with a gentylwoman that semeth hath grete nede of yow / Thenne Galahad wente to her & asked her what she wold
(label) to excite or to stir up something latent.
To rouse from a state of inaction or dormancy.
To come out of a state of inaction or dormancy.
*(Edward Augustus Freeman) (1823-1892)
*:The national spirit again awoke .
*(Bible), xv. 34
*:Awake to righteousness, and sin not.
As adjectives the difference between sleepy and awake
is that sleepy is tired; feeling the need for sleep while awake is not asleep; conscious.As a noun sleepy
is (informal) the gum that builds up in the eye.As a verb awake is
(label) to become conscious after having slept.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...