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Sleep - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | sleep |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | suspension of consciousness |
| Synonyms: | bedtime, catnap, coma, dormancy, doze, dream, dullness, few z's, forty winks*, hibernation, lethargy, nap, nod, repose, rest, sack time, sandman, shuteye, siesta, slumber, slumberland, snooze, torpidity, torpor, trance |
| Antonyms: | awakening, consciousness, wakefulness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | coma |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deep unconsciousness |
| Synonyms: | dullness, faint, insensibility, lethargy, oblivion, sleep, slumber, stupor, swoon, torpor, trance, blackout, hebetude, somnolence, syncope, torpidity |
| Antonyms: | alertness, consciousness, wakefulness |
| Main Entry: | death |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | end of life |
| Synonyms: | afterlife, bereavement, casualty, cessation, curtains*, darkness, decease, demise, departure, destruction, dissolution, downfall, dying, end, ending, eradication, euthanasia, exit, expiration, extinction, fatality, finish, grave, grim reaper*, heaven, loss, mortality, oblivion, paradise, parting, passing, quietus, release, repose, ruin, silence, sleep, termination, tomb, annihilation, eternal rest, extermination, finis, necrosis, obliteration, passing over, ruination |
| Antonyms: | being, birth, entity, existence, life, living |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | decease |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | death |
| Synonyms: | curtains*, demise, departure, dissolution, dying, grim reaper*, passing, quietus, release, silence, sleep, buying the farm, defunction, passing away, passing over, taps, the end |
| Notes: | decease is the event of dying or departure from life; disease is an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal and harmful functioning |
| Antonyms: | birth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | demise |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fate, usually death |
| Synonyms: | annihilation, collapse, curtains, decease, departure, dissolution, downfall, dying, end, ending, expiration, extinction, failure, fall, final thrill, last out, last roundup, lights out, number's up, passing, quietus, ruin, silence, sleep, termination |
| Antonyms: | birth |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hibernate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lie dormant; sleep through cold weather |
| Synonyms: | hide, hole up, immure, sleep, vegetate, winter, lie torpid |
| Main Entry: | lethargy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | laziness, sluggishness |
| Synonyms: | apathy, coma, disregard, dullness, idleness, inaction, indifference, indolence, inertia, languor, lassitude, listlessness, passiveness, sleep, sleepiness, sloth, slowness, slumber, stupor, torpor, unconcern, disinterest, drowsiness, hebetude, heedlessness, impassivity, inactivity, inanition, inertness, insouciance, phlegm, supineness, torpidity, torpidness, unmindfulness |
| Antonyms: | activity, energy, life, liveliness, vigor, vitality, vivacity, busyness, vivaciousness |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | passing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | death |
| Synonyms: | decease, demise, dissolution, end, finish, loss, silence, sleep, termination, defunction |
| Antonyms: | birth, living |
| Main Entry: | repose |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | restfulness; calm |
| Synonyms: | ease, inaction, leisure, peace, quiet, refreshment, relaxation, renewal, respite, rest, restoration, sleep, slumber, stillness, inactivity, quietness, quietude, relaxing, requiescence, tranquillity |
| Antonyms: | agitation, disturbance, upset, worry |
| Main Entry: | repose |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | relax; recline |
| Synonyms: | deposit, lie, loaf, loll, lounge, place, rest, settle, slant, sleep, slumber, stretch, tilt, lay down, lie down, settle down, stretch out, take it easy |
| Antonyms: | energize, be active, be busy |
| Main Entry: | sentence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | punishing decree |
| Synonyms: | book, censure, clock, condemnation, decision, determination, dictum, doom, edict, fall, hitch, jolt, judgment, knock, order, penalty, pronouncement, punishment, rap*, ruling, sleep, stretch, term, time, trick, vacation, verdict, considered opinion, getup, sending up the river |
| Antonyms: | accusation, charge |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | silence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | absence of sound, speech |
| Synonyms: | calm, censorship, death, hush, hush-hush*, lull, peace, quiescence, quiet, quietus, reserve, reticence, secrecy, sleep, still, stillness, sulk, sullenness, blackout, dead air, dumbness, inarticulateness, iron curtain, laconism, muteness, noiselessness, quietness, quietude, saturninity, speechlessness, taciturnity, uncommunicativeness |
| Antonyms: | clamor, communication, noise, talk |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | snore |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make sounds when sleeping |
| Synonyms: | sleep, snort, wheeze, breathe heavily, saw logs, saw wood, snuffle |
| Main Entry: | stupor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | daze, unconsciousness |
| Synonyms: | amazement, anesthesia, apathy, bewilderment, coma, dullness, inertia, insensibility, languor, lassitude, lethargy, numbness, sleep, slumber, stupefaction, suspended animation, swoon, torpor, trance, asphyxia, fainting, hebetude, hypnosis, inertness, narcosis, petrifaction, somnolence, sopor, swooning |
| Antonyms: | consciousness, sensibility |
| Main Entry: | yawn |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | open mouth wide, usually sign of |
| Synonyms: | divide, doze, expand, gap, gape, give, nap, part, sleep, snooze, spread, yaw, yawp*, drowse, fatigue catch flies |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rest |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inactivity |
| Synonyms: | break, breather*, breathing space*, calm, calmness, cessation, coffee break, comfort, composure, downtime*, doze, ease, forty winks*, halt, holiday, hush, idleness, interlude, intermission, interval, leisure, letup*, lull, nap, pause, peace, quiescence, quiet, recess, recreation, refreshment, relaxation, relief, repose, respite, silence, sleep, slumber, standstill, stay, stillness, stop, time off, vacation, cutoff, dreaminess, motionlessness, quietude, siesta, somnolence, tranquillity |
| Antonyms: | action, activity, energy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dissolution |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | death; destruction |
| Synonyms: | adjournment, conclusion, curtains, decay, decease, decomposition, demise, disappearance, dismissal, end, ending, evaporation, extinction, finish, melting, overthrow, passing, quietus, release, resolution, ruin, silence, sleep, solution, suspension, termination, defunction, disbandment, discontinuation, dispersal, liquefaction |
| Antonyms: | beginning, commencement, construction, start |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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