drowsy

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

drowsy [drowsy drowsier drowsiest] BrE [ˈdraʊzi] NAmE [ˈdraʊzi] adjective (drows·ier, drowsi·est)
1. tired and almost asleep
Syn: ↑sleepy
•The tablets may make you feel drowsy.
2. making you feel relaxed and tired
•a drowsy afternoon in the sunshine
Derived Words: ↑drowsily ▪ ↑drowsiness

Word Origin:
late 15th cent.: probably from the stem of Old English drūsian ‘be languid or slow’, of Germanic origin; related to ↑dreary.

Example Bank:
•I began to feel drowsy.
•She was drowsy with the wine.
•These tablets may make you a little drowsy.
•patients who are drowsy from the effects of their medication
•She lay in the sun all through the long, drowsy afternoon.

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  oscitant, yawning(a), drowsing(a), dozy