different between sleepy vs dispirited

English

Etymology

sleep +? -y

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sli?pi/
• Rhymes: -i?pi

Adjective

sleepy (comparative sleepier, superlative sleepiest)

1. Tired; feeling the need for sleep.

   • She wak'd her sleepy crew.

2. Suggesting tiredness.
   • 1994, Stephen Fry, The Hippopotamus Chapter 2

     At the very moment he cried out, David realised that what he had run into was only the Christmas tree. Disgusted with himself at such cowardice, he spat a needle from his mouth, stepped back from the tree and listened. There were no sounds of any movement upstairs: no shouts, no sleepy grumbles, only a gentle tinkle from the decorations as the tree had recovered from the collision.

3. Tending to induce sleep; soporific.

   a sleepy drink or potion

4. Dull; lazy; heavy; sluggish.
5. Quiet; without bustle or activity.

   a sleepy English village

Synonyms

• tired
• See also Thesaurus:sleepy

Translations

Noun

sleepy (uncountable)

1. (informal) The gum that builds up in the eye; sleep, gound.

   Synonym: (which see for more) sleep

Anagrams

• Epleys

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??sp???t?d/

Verb

dispirited

1. simple past tense and past participle of dispirit

Adjective

dispirited (comparative more dispirited, superlative most dispirited)

1. Without energy, gusto or drive, enervated, without the will to accomplish, disheartened.

   So dispirited were the troops after the loss of their beloved commander that they moped about and could barely be bothered to eat let alone load their guns.

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