sleepy
/ˈsliːpi/ adjectiveDefinition
PERSON › feeling tired and wanting to go to sleep: The heat had made me sleepy.
PLACE › quiet and with little activity: a sleepy little town
sleepily adverb sleepiness noun [U] (Definition of sleepy adjective from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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