| 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
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Antonyms: |
attentive, awake, conscious
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* = informal/non-formal usage
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