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Meaning of "sleepy-headed" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SLEEPY-HEADED

sleepy-headed  [ˌsliːpɪˈhɛdɪd] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SLEEPY-HEADED

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Sleepy-Headed is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES SLEEPY-HEADED MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of sleepy-headed in the English dictionary

The definition of sleepy-headed in the dictionary is lazy or tired.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SLEEPY-HEADED


baldheaded
ˌbɔːldˈhɛdɪd
bareheaded
ˌbɛəˈhɛdɪd
big-headed
ˌbɪɡˈhɛdɪd
boneheaded
ˈbəʊnˌhɛdɪd
bullet-headed
ˈbʊlɪtˌhɛdɪd
dunderheaded
ˈdʌndəˌhɛdɪd
glassyheaded
ˌɡlɑːsɪˈhɛdɪd
headed
ˈhɛdɪd
muddleheaded
ˌmʌdəlˈhɛdɪd
multiheaded
ˈmʌltɪˌhɛdɪd
muttonheaded
ˈmʌtnˌhɛdɪd
pinheaded
ˈpɪnˌhɛdɪd
roundheaded
ˌraʊndˈhɛdɪd
sapheaded
ˌsæpˈhɛdɪd
shockheaded
ˈʃɒkˌhɛdɪd
swell-headed
ˌswɛlˈhɛdɪd
thickheaded
θɪkˈhɛdɪd
towheaded
ˌtəʊˈhɛdɪd
unheaded
ʌnˈhɛdɪd
white-headed
ˈwaɪtˌhɛdɪd

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SLEEPY-HEADED

sleeping position
sleeping problems
sleeping quarters
sleeping sickness
sleeping suit
sleeping tablet
sleepless
sleeplessly
sleeplessness
sleeplike
sleepout
sleepover
sleepsuit
sleepwalk
sleepwalker
sleepwalking
sleepwear
sleepy
sleepy sickness
sleepyhead

WORDS THAT END LIKE SLEEPY-HEADED

beaded
blockheaded
breaded
bull-headed
clear-headed
cool-headed
empty-headed
hard-headed
hot-headed
knuckleheaded
leaded
level-headed
light-headed
loaded
long-headed
pig-headed
red-headed
soft-headed
unleaded
woodenheaded
wrong-headed

Synonyms and antonyms of sleepy-headed in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «sleepy-headed» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SLEEPY-HEADED

Find out the translation of sleepy-headed to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of sleepy-headed from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «sleepy-headed» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

昏昏欲睡的头脑
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

dormilón
570 millions of speakers

English

sleepy-headed
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

- नींद अध्यक्षता
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

النعاس التي يرأسها
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

сонный , возглавляемых
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

sonolento cabeças
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

নিদ্রালু কেশ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

somnolent
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Mengantuk
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

schläfrig köpfigen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

- 眠い頭
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

슬리피 향했다
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ngantuk
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

buồn ngủ đầu
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தூக்கம் தலை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

निद्रानाश
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

-Uykulu başlı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

dormiglione
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

senny -headed
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

сонний , очолюваних
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

somnoros capete
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

υπνηλία , με επικεφαλής
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

slaperig - leiding
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

sömnig -headed
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

søvnig -ledet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of sleepy-headed

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SLEEPY-HEADED»

The term «sleepy-headed» is used very little and occupies the 165.478 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SLEEPY-HEADED» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «sleepy-headed» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «sleepy-headed» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about sleepy-headed

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SLEEPY-HEADED»

Discover the use of sleepy-headed in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to sleepy-headed and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Working the Sea: Misadventures, Ghost Stories, and Life ...
one trip a particularly sleepy-headed fisherman was working with my father. They always had trouble waking this guy up. This time, it was on towards winter and my dad had just come off watch. He had on thick woolen mittens, and it had ...
Wendell Seavey, 2010
2
The Last Chronicle of Barset
“Go then;—go and get your sleep. What a sleepy-headed generation it is.” Johnny longed to ask her whether the last generation was less sleepy-headed, and whether the gentleman with two thousand a year had sat up talking all night before ...
3
How Choctaws Invented Civilization and why Choctaws Will ...
They did not know that it woke up a lot of sleepy-headed, despairing, poisoned Lords of the North American Continent. Probably even the people doing the mocking were too sleepy-headed to even be aware of the dangerous thing that they ...
D. L. Birchfield, 2007
4
The Last Chronicle of Barset
“What difference does that make?” “A fellowwantsto get a littlesleep, you know.” “ Go, then;—goand getyour sleep. What asleepyheaded generation it is.” Johnny longed to ask whetherthe last generation was less sleepy headed, and whether ...
Anthony Trollope, 2012
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The English dialect dictionary, being the complete ...
This soart a bed al just be t'thin for sleepy-headed prentis-lads, Toll Tmoumotrm Trip to annex (1851) 40. Cor.2 A sleepy-headed fellow. (1) mm} When a child becomes sleepy, and scratches his head at night, it is said, ' He wants ti gen 11 bed, ...
Joseph Wright
6
Listen Here: Women Writing in Appalachia
For though I counsel 'em a sight each time I ride to town, Little chaps get so sleepy-headed when the dark comes down! A body can make shift somehow to feed 'em up of days, But nights they need a woman-person's foolish little ways ( When ...
Sandra L. Ballard, Patricia L. Hudson, 2013
7
Isabella St. Clair: A Vamp Is Reborn
Clayton heard his wife's' screams but in a sleepy headed hazed believed, and burying at first, well, at least denying that Felicity was gone, indeed, dead, he believed that his wife was getting onto the two girls for fussing and fighting, ...
Denise Wilkinson, 2010
8
In Their Time
I don't know when eva Ize seen sech a sleepy-headed bunch in my life.” “Well, we are all sleepy-headed Aunt Nell,” Harriet laughed. “And I suppose we might as well tell you why we weren't able to sleep,” she stated. “We had a prowler trying ...
Sam Mcclanahan, 2012
9
The Modern Anglo-Bengali Dictionary:
The state of being sleepy ; Sleepy-cream— 4it« is i Sleepy- headed - PlSftll sleet (sle't), n, & v. i. Hail or snow falling mixed with rain and usually in fine particles ; ( it: i: ); ^t?^^ ( fe: c^t: ) i Fcf6 t. To snow or hail with a mixture of rain ; '-s 1(35$ ^ ?
Charuchandra Guha, 2007
10
The Dollmaker
He soon came into the kitchen, grimy-faced and big-eyed; sleepy-headed, but not good sleepy like a man after a day's work. Fidgety—some part of him never wanting to go to bed because it was morning— and short-worded when he asked  ...
Harriette Arnow, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SLEEPY-HEADED»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term sleepy-headed is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Peter Rhodes: Voting for Groucho
If you doubt that, catch the new TV advert for Dreams beds which begins with some sleepy-headed bloke getting a tennis ball smack in the kisser. I challenge ... «expressandstar.com, Jul 15»
2
Review: "Tour" a worthy look at artist as reluctant subject
This is a man of endless contradictions; he's shaggy and sleepy-headed but sharp and always questioning, wryly candid but then unexpectedly defensive and ... «seattlepi.com, Jul 15»
3
Another wild day at British Open finds Johnson calm, and in the lead
Johnson kept his same habitual disposition through it all: sleepy-headed. Johnson's second round of 69, to lead by a stroke over Englishman Danny Willett at ... «Santa Fe New Mexican, Jul 15»
4
At the British Open, the wind blows, the players howl and Dustin …
Johnson kept his same habitual disposition through it all: sleepy-headed. Johnson's second round of 69, to lead by a stroke over Englishman Danny Willett at ... «Washington Post, Jul 15»
5
30 best songs of 2015 (so far): Courtney Barnett, Blur
The second single from the Twerps' "Range Anxiety" album finds the Melbourne rockers channeling the sleepy-headed slacker-pop the Velvet Underground ... «azcentral.com, Jul 15»
6
Comet lander Philae awakens, sends more signals
(USA TODAY) -- Out of the shadows and into the sunlight, the sleepy-headed little comet lander Philae has again updated its status after waking from a ... «WTSP 10 News, Jun 15»
7
Jewish David Foster Wallace stuns at Sundance
“This is a man of endless contradictions; he's shaggy and sleepy-headed but sharp and always questioning, wryly candid but then unexpectedly defensive and ... «Jewish Journal, Jan 15»
8
Au.Ra's “Talk Show” is Brimming With Sleepy-Headed Psych Pop
Tom Crandles and Tim Jenkins are Au.Ra, a Sydney/London duo who have just released their new single "Talk Show” that we are premiering below. Mixed by ... «Noisey, Jan 15»
9
Klinghoffer Brawl Reveals How the (Kosher) Sausage Is Made
Even were the Opera devoid of anti-Semitism, it was a boring sleepy-headed, disjointed piece of detritus. Now – let us opine that John Adams is a great ... «New York Observer, Oct 14»
10
Grieving Parents Shocked When Dead Son Answers The Door
Not surprisingly, the sleepy-headed Justin was confused by all the commotion and hysteria, telling the AP, “They were yelling, 'Praise Jesus! It's a miracle!'”. «Popdust, Oct 14»

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