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dozy

also dozier, doziest
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As an adjective, dozy means quite sleepy or tired.

Meanings of dozy

4 meanings

adjective

  1. Quite sleepy or tired.

  2. Intellectually slow.

    “Jim is a dozy child.”

  3. carpentryDecaying, rotten, spongy.

  4. Half asleep

    “made drowsy by the long ride”

    “it seemed a pity to disturb the drowsing (or dozing) professor”

    “a tired dozy child”

    Similar: drowsy, drowsing

Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).

Synonyms by meaning

adjective: half asleep
drowsydrowsing

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