dozy

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dozy

adjective dozier · doziest

  1. Quite sleepy or tired.

    Similar: drowsy, somnolent, adrowse, bedroomy, dozy, dopey, dragging one's tail, eyelids at half-mast, nodding off, oscitant, out of steam, sleepbound

  2. Intellectually slow. Jim is a dozy child.

    Similar: drowsy, vacant, addlebrained, addlepated, airheaded, bee-brained, beef-witted, soft, beefheaded, beetle-headed, birdbrained, blockheaded

  3. Decaying, rotten, spongy. dozy wood

    Similar: doty, blighted, cankered, decayed, dotterel, forworn, moldering, rotten, putrefacient, putrefactive, putrescent, putrid

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adj sleepy

Españoladormecido
Françaissomnolent
Italianoassonnato, insonnolito
Ελληνικάαποκοιμισμένος apokoimisménos
Русскийсо́нный sónnyj

adj intellectually slow

Deutschdösig
Ελληνικάαποκοιμισμένος apokoimisménos

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@misc{dozy_2026,
  title = {dozy},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/dozy},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}