sleepish

comparative more sleepish · superlative most sleepish

1. sleepy; drowsy

   She answered the telephone with a sleepish sounding voice, since she wasn't fully awake yet.

   2010, Brenda Croan, Hidden in a Pillow

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   One, my lord, that doth so palpably, so apparently make her adulteries a trophy, whiles the poting-stick to her unsatiate goatish abomination jeers at, and flouts your sleepish, and more than sleepish, security.

   1633, Iohn Ford [i.e., John Ford], Loues Sacrifice. A Tragedie […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Hugh Beeston, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page)

   Synonyms: sleepbound, somnolent, adrowse, bedroomy, dozy, dopey, dragging one's tail, drowsy