Usually means: Feeling sleepy, tired, or lethargic.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word DROWSY:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. drowsy: Merriam-Webster
  2. drowsy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. drowsy: Collins English Dictionary
  4. drowsy: Vocabulary.com
  5. Drowsy, drowsy: Wordnik
  6. drowsy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. drowsy: Wiktionary
  8. drowsy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. drowsy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. drowsy: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. drowsy: Dictionary.com
  12. drowsy: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. drowsy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Drowsy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Drowsy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. drowsy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. drowsy: Rhymezone
  18. Drowsy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. drowsy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. drowsy: FreeDictionary.org
  21. drowsy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. drowsy: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. drowsy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  24. drowsy: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. drowsy: Legal dictionary

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. drowsy: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. drowsy: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. drowsy: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (drowsy)

▸ adjective:  Inclined to drowse; heavy with sleepiness
▸ adjective:  Causing someone to fall sleep or feel sleepy; lulling; soporific.
▸ adjective:  Boring.
▸ adjective:  Dull; stupid.

Similar:
dozing, asleep, drowsing, dozy, napping, oscitant, nodding, yawning, inattentive, sleepish, more...

Opposite:
alert, awake, attentive, vigilant, watchful

Types:
sleepy, tired, fatigued, exhausted, more...

Phrases:
The Drowsy Chaperone, not drowsy, words drowsy, drowsy voice, more...

Adjectives:
little, patient, non, stupidest, last, half, uncommonly, sunlit, tepid, elf

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Similar:
dozing, asleep, drowsing, dozy, napping, oscitant, nodding, yawning, inattentive, sleepish, more...

Opposite:
alert, awake, attentive, vigilant, watchful

Types:
sleepy, tired, fatigued, exhausted, more...

Phrases:
The Drowsy Chaperone, not drowsy, words drowsy, drowsy voice, more...

Adjectives:
little, patient, non, stupidest, last, half, uncommonly, sunlit, tepid, elf

Colors:
    lavender,     mauve,     dusty rose,     sage,     periwinkle, more...



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