What does sleepish mean?
Sleepish means sleepy; drowsy.
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/ˈsliːpɪʃ/ · adjective
sleepy; drowsy.
One, my lord, that doth so palpably, so apparently make her adulteries a trophy, whiles the poting-stick to her unsatiate goatish abomination jeers at, and flouts your sleepish, and more than sleepish, security.
She answered the telephone with a sleepish sounding voice, since she wasn't fully awake yet.
Use sleepish when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Sleepish means sleepy; drowsy.
Common synonyms include sleepbound, somnolent, adrowse, bedroomy.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
One, my lord, that doth so palpably, so apparently make her adulteries a trophy, whiles the poting-stick to her unsatiate goatish abomination jeers at, and flouts your sleepish, and more than sleepish, security.
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