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adjective
- 1. feeling drowsy and lazy: "he grew dozy at the end of a long day"
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adjective. uk / ˈdəʊ.zi / us / ˈdoʊ.zi / Add to word list. informal. tired and wanting to sleep: Drinking a beer at lunchtime makes me feel dozy all afternoon. UK informal. thinking or reacting slowly: He'd have driven straight into me if I hadn't seen him first - the dozy idiot! SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Tired and making tired.
: drowsy, sleepy. dozily. ˈdō-zə-lē. adverb. doziness noun. Synonyms. drowsy. sleepy. slumberous. slumbrous. somnolent. See all Synonyms & Antonyms in Thesaurus. Examples of dozy in a Sentence. He's a dozy old chap. the big Thanksgiving dinner left us all feeling satisfied and dozy.
adjective. us / ˈdoʊ.zi / uk / ˈdəʊ.zi / Add to word list. informal. tired and wanting to sleep: Drinking a beer at lunchtime makes me feel dozy all afternoon. UK informal. thinking or reacting slowly: He'd have driven straight into me if I hadn't seen him first - the dozy idiot! SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Tired and making tired.
adjective. drowsy. informal. stupid. Discover More. Derived Forms. ˈdoziness, noun. ˈdozily, adverb. Discover More. Other Words From. doz i·ly adverb. doz i·ness noun. Discover More. Word History and Origins. Origin of dozy 1. First recorded in 1685–95; doze 1 + -y 1. Discover More. Example Sentences.
IPA guide. Other forms: dozier; dozily; doziest. Definitions of dozy. adjective. half asleep. “a tired dozy child”. synonyms: drowsing, drowsy. asleep. in a state of sleep.
1. adjective. If you are dozy, you are feeling sleepy and not very alert. Maybe I eat too much and that's what makes me dozy. Synonyms: drowsy, sleepy, dozing, nodding More Synonyms of dozy. 2. adjective. If you describe someone as dozy, you mean they are rather stupid and slow to understand things. [informal, disapproval] More Synonyms of dozy.
Define dozy. dozy synonyms, dozy pronunciation, dozy translation, English dictionary definition of dozy. adj. do·zi·er , do·zi·est Half asleep; drowsy. doz′i·ly adv. do′zi·ness n. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.
