Etymology

sleepful

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Today it means: very sleepy; strongly wanting or needing to sleep Full definition →

Middle English slepeful
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  1. Middle English · inherited fromslepeful
  2. English todaysleepful

From Middle English slepeful, slepful, equivalent to sleep + -ful.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.