Dozy
adjective
Feeling sleepy or being in a state of sleepiness.
After a long day at work, he felt dozy on the train ride home.
Often appears as...
- feeling dozy
- look dozy
adjective
Lacking alertness or attentiveness, acting in a confused way.
She was acting dozy and kept misplacing her keys.
Often appears as...
- acting dozy
- looking dozy
adjective
Feeling sleepy or being in a state of sleepiness.
After a long day at work, he felt dozy on the train ride home.
Often appears as...
- feeling dozy
- look dozy
adjective
Lacking alertness or attentiveness, acting in a confused way.
She was acting dozy and kept misplacing her keys.
Often appears as...
- acting dozy
- looking dozy
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Tiredness Level
Use 'dozy' for mild sleepiness, less strong than 'exhausted'.
I'm feeling a bit dozy after that meal.
Pro Tip 2/3Informal Usage
'Dozy' is informal, suitable for casual conversations, not formal writing.
We all got a bit dozy after the party ended.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Fully Asleep
'Dozy' implies being half-asleep or on the verge of sleeping.
The warm room made me dozy as I struggled to stay awake.
Pro Tip 1/3Tiredness Level
Use 'dozy' for mild sleepiness, less strong than 'exhausted'.
I'm feeling a bit dozy after that meal.
Pro Tip 2/3Informal Usage
'Dozy' is informal, suitable for casual conversations, not formal writing.
We all got a bit dozy after the party ended.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Fully Asleep
'Dozy' implies being half-asleep or on the verge of sleeping.
The warm room made me dozy as I struggled to stay awake.
Pro Tip 1/3Tiredness Level
Use 'dozy' for mild sleepiness, less strong than 'exhausted'.
I'm feeling a bit dozy after that meal.
Pro Tip 2/3Informal Usage
'Dozy' is informal, suitable for casual conversations, not formal writing.
We all got a bit dozy after the party ended.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Fully Asleep
'Dozy' implies being half-asleep or on the verge of sleeping.
The warm room made me dozy as I struggled to stay awake.
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Video examples
Filming Lions Hunting...
everything because it's filmed with the infrared cameras but actually for us it's pitch black you're sat in a vehicle you may have been having your sleep or rest time or you're quite dozy because you've been up all night for four or five weeks and then all of a sudden there's lions roaring right next to you within maybe three
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 198 PIPE...
he was upwind what's a little bit much and so we've decided now it's going to investigate what these Franklin's were squeaking about maybe we'll find a very dozy juke somewhere around here that's what I'm hoping for I'm hoping he's walking around and if nothing here then
Video examples
Filming Lions Hunting...
everything because it's filmed with the infrared cameras but actually for us it's pitch black you're sat in a vehicle you may have been having your sleep or rest time or you're quite dozy because you've been up all night for four or five weeks and then all of a sudden there's lions roaring right next to you within maybe three
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 198 PIPE...
he was upwind what's a little bit much and so we've decided now it's going to investigate what these Franklin's were squeaking about maybe we'll find a very dozy juke somewhere around here that's what I'm hoping for I'm hoping he's walking around and if nothing here then
Example 1 of 2
Quote examples
Rupert Graves
English Actor
I was a dozy boy; I'd like to have been like James Dean, but I was more Arthur Askey - pathetically rebellious in a cheeky, chappy sort of way.
Quote examples
Rupert Graves
English Actor
I was a dozy boy; I'd like to have been like James Dean, but I was more Arthur Askey - pathetically rebellious in a cheeky, chappy sort of way.
Example 1 of 1
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