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Word Meanings - SLEEPFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Strongly inclined to sleep; very sleepy. -- Sleep"ful*ness, n.

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  • SLEEPWALKER
    One who walks in his sleep; a somnambulist.
  • SLEEP-AT-NOON
    A plant which closes its flowers at midday; a kind of goat's beard. Dr. Prior.
  • SLEEPLESS
    1. Having no sleep; wakeful. 2. Having no rest; perpetually agitated. "Biscay's sleepless bay." Byron. -- Sleep"less*ly, adv. -- Sleep"less*ness, n.
  • INCLINING
    See 3
  • SLEEPWAKING
    The state of one mesmerized, or in a partial and morbid sleep.
  • SLEEPWAKER
    On in a state of magnetic or mesmeric sleep.
  • SLEEPMARKEN
    See 4
  • INCLINED
    Making an angle with some line or plane; -- said of a line or plane. (more info) 1. Having a leaning or tendency towards, or away from, a thing; disposed or moved by wish, desire, or judgment; as, a man inclined to virtue. "Each pensively
  • STRONGLY
    In a strong manner; so as to be strong in action or in resistance; with strength; with great force; forcibly; powerfully; firmly; vehemently; as, a town strongly fortified; he objected strongly.
  • SLEEPFUL
    Strongly inclined to sleep; very sleepy. -- Sleep"ful*ness, n.
  • SLEEPISH
    Disposed to sleep; sleepy; drowsy. Your sleepish, and more than sleepish, security. Ford.
  • INCLINATORY
    Having the quality of leaning or inclining; as, the inclinatory needle. -- In*clin"a*to*ri*ly, adv. Sir T. Browne.
  • SLEEP
    imp. of Sleep. Slept. Chaucer.
  • SLEEPING
    from Sleep. Sleeping car, a railway car or carrriage, arranged with apartments and berths for sleeping. -- Sleeping partner , a dormant partner. See under Dormant. -- Sleeping table , a stationary inclined platform on which pulverized
  • SLEEPILY
    In a sleepy manner; drowsily.
  • INCLINATION
    The angle made by two lines or planes; as, the inclination of the plane of the earth's equator to the plane of the ecliptic is about 23ยบ 28'; the inclination of two rays of light. 5. A leaning or tendency of the mind, feelings, preferences, or
  • SLEEPINESS
    The quality or state of being sleepy.
  • INCLINNOMETER
    An apparatus to determine the inclination of the earth's magnetic force to the plane of the horizon; -- called also inclination compass, and dip circle.
  • SLEEPY
    1. Drowsy; inclined to, or overcome by, sleep. Shak. She waked her sleepy crew. Dryden. 2. Tending to induce sleep; soporiferous; somniferous; as, a sleepy drink or potion. Chaucer. 3. Dull; lazy; heavy; sluggish. Shak. 'Tis not sleepy business;
  • INCLINABLENESS
    The state or quality of being inclinable; inclination.
  • OUTSLEEP
    To exceed in sleeping. Shak.
  • ASLEEP
    1. In a state of sleep; in sleep; dormant. Fast asleep the giant lay supine. Dryden. By whispering winds soon lulled asleep. Milton. 2. In the sleep of the grave; dead. Concerning them which are asleep . . . sorrow not, even as others which have
  • DOGSLEEP
    The fitful naps taken when all hands are kept up by stress. (more info) 1. Pretended sleep. Addison.
  • DISINCLINE
    To incline away the affections of; to excite a slight aversion in; to indispose; to make unwilling; to alienate. Careful . . . to disincline them from any reverence or affection to the Queen. Clarendon. To social scenes by nature disinclined.
  • DISINCLINATION
    The state of being disinclined; want of propensity, desire, or affection; slight aversion or dislike; indisposition. Disappointment gave him a disinclination to the fair sex. Arbuthnot. Having a disinclination to books or business. Guardian. Syn.

 

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