sleepily

English

Etymology

From sleepy +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

• Audio (US):

  (file)

Adverb

sleepily (comparative more sleepily, superlative most sleepily)

1. In a sleepy manner.
   • 1839, Launcelot Lamprey, “Mems in the Mediterranean”, in The Metropolitan Magazine, volume 24:

     Igins was studying the habits of a capuchin caterpillar, that, like his betters, was sleepily eating his way through existence on the leaf of a cabbage in the garden […]

   • 1857 January, “To-morrow”, in The Mother's Magazine:

     Lettie's eyes were scarcely open, but she answered sleepily, "Well, papa."