Thesaurus:sleep

Thesaurus

sleep

English

Sense: substance found in the corner of the eyes after waking

Synonyms

• bed booger(s) (slang)
• crusty (slang)
• eye booger(s) (slang)
• eye bogie(s) (slang)
• eye crust (slang)
• eye goop (slang)
• eye gunk (slang)
• eye sand (colloquial)
• eye snot (slang)
• gound (UK dialectal)
• sleeper (colloquial)
• sleepies (colloquial)
• sleepy    [⇒ thesaurus] (colloquial)
• sleepy booger(s)(slang)
• sleepy dust (colloquial)
• sleepy sand (colloquial)

Verb

Sense: to sleep

Synonyms

• crash
• doze
• repose
• rest
• saw logs
• catch some z's
• sleep
• sleep a wink
• slumber
• snooze

Hyponyms

• catnap
• doss
• nap
• noon

Meronyms

• dream
• saw wood
• snore
• sleepwalk
• somnambulate

Various

• count sheep

See also

• Thesaurus:shut-eye
• Thesaurus:fall asleep
• Thesaurus:go to bed
• Thesaurus:wake
• Thesaurus:sleepy
• Thesaurus:soporific

Further reading

• “683. inactivity” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “265. quiescence” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “687. repose” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “sleep” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.