sleeping as a noun: - 1
- 2
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as an adjective: - 1
sleeping
noun
1 sleeping
The state of being asleep.
2 sleeping
3 sleeping
The suspension of consciousness and decrease in metabolic rate.
adjective
1 sleeping
Lying with head on paws as if sleeping.
synonym: dormant.
Roget 265:
quiescent,
still;
motionless,
moveless;
fixed;
stationary;
immotile;
at rest at a stand,
at a standstill,
at anchor;
stock,
still;
standing still
etc.
v.;
sedentary,
untraveled,
stay-at-home;
becalmed,
stagnant,
quiet;
unmoved,
undisturbed,
unruffled;
calm,
restful;
cataleptic;
immovable
etc.
(stable)
150;
sleeping
etc.
(inactive)
683;
silent
etc.
403;
still as a statue,
still as a post,
still as a mouse,
still as death;
vegetative,
vegetating.
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Roget 683:
inactive;
motionless
etc.
265;
unoccupied
etc.
(doing nothing)
681;
unbusied†.
indolent,
lazy,
slothful,
idle,
lusk†,
remiss,
slack,
inert,
torpid,
sluggish,
otiose,
languid,
supine,
heavy,
dull,
leaden,
lumpish†;
exanimate†,
soulless;
listless;
drony†,
dronish†;
lazy as Ludlam's dog.
dilatory,
laggard;
lagging
etc.
v.;
slow
etc.
275;
rusty,
flagging;
lackadaisical,
maudlin,
fiddle-faddle;
pottering
etc.
v.;
shilly-shally
etc.
(irresolute)
605.
sleeping,
etc.
v.;
asleep;
fast asleep,
dead asleep,
sound asleep;
in a sound sleep;
sound as a top,
dormant,
comatose;
in the arms of Morpheus,
in the lap of Morpheus.
sleepy,
sleepful†;
dozy†,
drowsy,
somnolent,
torpescent†,
lethargic,
lethargical†;
somnifacient†;
statuvolent†,
statuvolic†;
heavy,
heavy with sleep;
napping;
somnific†,
somniferous;
soporous†,
soporific,
soporiferous†;
hypnotic;
balmy,
dreamy;
unawakened,
unawakened.
sedative
etc.
174.
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