| 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 |
| 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: | coma |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deep unconsciousness |
Synonyms: |
blackout, dullness, faint, hebetude, insensibility, lethargy, oblivion, sleep, slumber, somnolence, stupor, swoon, syncope, torpidity, torpor, trance |
Antonyms: |
alertness, consciousness, wakefulness |
| Main Entry: | death |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | end of life |
Synonyms: |
afterlife, annihilation, bereavement, casualty, cessation, curtains, darkness, decease, demise, departure, destruction, dissolution, downfall, dying, end, ending, eradication, eternal rest, euthanasia, exit, expiration, extermination, extinction, fatality, finis, finish, grave, grim reaper, heaven, loss, mortality, necrosis, obliteration, oblivion, paradise, parting, passing, passing over, quietus, release, repose, ruin, ruination, silence, sleep, termination, tomb |
Antonyms: |
being, birth, entity, existence, life, living |
| Main Entry: | decease |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | death |
Synonyms: |
buying the farm, curtains, defunction, demise, departure, dissolution, dying, grim reaper, passing, passing away, passing over, quietus, release, silence, sleep, 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 |
| 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: | dissolution |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | death; destruction |
Synonyms: |
adjournment, conclusion, curtains, decay, decease, decomposition, defunction, demise, disappearance, disbandment, discontinuation, dismissal, dispersal, end, ending, evaporation, extinction, finish, liquefaction, melting, overthrow, passing, quietus, release, resolution, ruin, silence, sleep, solution, suspension, termination |
Antonyms: |
beginning, commencement, construction, start |
| 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: | lethargy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | laziness, sluggishness |
Synonyms: |
apathy, coma, disinterest, disregard, drowsiness, dullness, hebetude, heedlessness, idleness, impassivity, inaction, inactivity, inanition, indifference, indolence, inertia, inertness, insouciance, languor, lassitude, listlessness, passiveness, phlegm, sleep, sleepiness, sloth, slowness, slumber, stupor, supineness, torpidity, torpidness, torpor, unconcern, unmindfulness |
Antonyms: |
activity, busyness, energy, life, liveliness, vigor, vitality, vivaciousness, vivacity |