All sleeping synonyms
sleep·ing
S s adj sleeping
- dozy — drowsy; half asleep.
- latent — present but not visible, apparent, or actualized; existing as potential: latent ability.
- all ears — If someone says that they are all ears, they mean that they are ready and eager to listen.
- draggy — moving or developing very slowly.
- dead to the world — unaware of one's surroundings, esp fast asleep or very drunk
- abeyant — temporarily inactive, stopped, or suspended.
- asleep — Someone who is asleep is sleeping.
- at rest — not moving; still
- at ease — If you are at ease, you are feeling confident and relaxed, and are able to talk to people without feeling nervous or anxious. If you put someone at their ease, you make them feel at ease.
- lying down — to be in a horizontal, recumbent, or prostrate position, as on a bed or the ground; recline. Antonyms: stand.
- insomniac — a person who suffers from insomnia, the inability, especially when chronic, to obtain sufficient sleep, through difficulty in falling or staying asleep: Her husband, an insomniac, had at last fallen asleep at the computer, head resting on the keyboard.
adjective sleeping
- conked — a method of chemically straightening the hair.
- insomnious — (archaic) restless; sleepless.
- glued — Simple past tense and past participle of glue.
- wakeful — unable to sleep; not sleeping; indisposed to sleep: Excitement made the children wakeful.
- dormant — lying asleep or as if asleep; inactive, as in sleep; torpid: The lecturer's sudden shout woke the dormant audience.
- drowsing — Present participle of drowse.
- crashed — to make a loud, clattering noise, as of something dashed to pieces.
- dozing — Present participle of doze.
- nodding — to make a slight, quick downward bending forward of the head, as in assent, greeting, or command.
- napping — to sleep for a short time; doze.