| Main Entry: | sleep |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | suspend consciousness |
Synonyms: |
bed down, bunk, catch a wink, catch forty winks, catnap, conk out, cop some z's, crash*, doze, dream, drop off, drowse, fall asleep, fall out, flop, hibernate, hit the hay, hit the sack, languish, nap, nod, nod off, oversleep, relax, repose, rest, retire, sack out, saw wood, slumber, snooze, snore, take a nap, turn in, yawn, zonk out, zzz |
Antonyms: |
wake, waken |
| Main Entry: | sleeping |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dormant |
Synonyms: |
asleep, conked, crashed, dozing, dreaming, inactive, inert, napping, snoozing, unconscious |
| Main Entry: | sleeping |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | asleep |
Synonyms: |
abed, comatose, dormant, inactive, latent, slumbering, unconscious |
Antonyms: |
waking |
| Main Entry: | asleep |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unconscious |
Synonyms: |
catching some zzz's, comatose, conked, crashed, dormant, dozing, dreaming, flaked out, getting shut-eye, hibernating, in dreamland, in repose, inactive, inert, napping, on the kip, out cold, out like a light, out of it, out*, reposing, resting, sacked out, sleeping, slumbering, snoozing, snoring, somnolent, taking forty winks |
Antonyms: |
attentive, awake, conscious |
| Main Entry: | doze |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | take a nap |
Synonyms: |
catch a wink, catnap, cop some z's, drift off, drop off, drowse, nod off, sleep, sleep lightly, slumber, snooze |
| Main Entry: | hibernate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lie dormant; sleep through cold weather |
Synonyms: |
hide, hole up, immure, lie torpid, sleep, vegetate, winter |
| Main Entry: | latent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dormant, hidden |
Synonyms: |
abeyant, between the lines, concealed, contained, covert, idle, immature, implied, in abeyance, inactive, inert, inferential, inferred, inherent, inoperative, intrinsic, invisible, involved, lurking, passive, possible, potential, quiescent, rudimentary, secret, sleeping, smoldering, suppressed, suspended, tacit, torpid, underdeveloped, underlying, undeveloped, unexposed, unexpressed, unrealized, unripe, unseen, veiled, vestigial |
Antonyms: |
active, apparent, clear, live, manifest, obvious, open, public |
| Main Entry: | lie |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be prostrate, flat |
Synonyms: |
be prone, be recumbent, be supine, couch, go to bed, laze, lie down, loll, lounge, nap, recline, repose, rest, retire, siesta, sleep, sprawl, stretch out, turn in |
| Notes: | to lay is to place something; to lie is to recline |
Antonyms: |
be upright, stand, straighten |
| Main Entry: | nap |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | take a short, light sleep |
Synonyms: |
catch forty winks, catnap, doze, drop off, drowse, get some shut-eye, grab some z's, nod, nod off, rack, relax, rest, sleep, snooze, take a siesta, take a snooze |
| Main Entry: | nod |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fall asleep |
Synonyms: |
be sleepy, become inattentive, doze, drift, drift off, droop, drowse, nap, sleep, slump |