Sleepy vs Hyper - What's the difference?
sleepy | hyper |
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
As adjectives the difference between sleepy and hyper
is that sleepy is tired; feeling the need for sleep while hyper is (colloquial) short for hyperactive.As nouns the difference between sleepy and hyper
is that sleepy is (informal) the gum that builds up in the eye while hyper is (science fiction) short for hyperspace.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...