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All asleep synonyms

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adj asleep

  • unconscious — not conscious; without awareness, sensation, or cognition.
  • dormant — lying asleep or as if asleep; inactive, as in sleep; torpid: The lecturer's sudden shout woke the dormant audience.
  • comatose — A person who is comatose is in a coma.
  • dreaming — (often initial capital letter) the ancient time of the creation of all things by sacred ancestors, whose spirits continue into the present, as conceived in the mythology of the Australian Aborigines.
  • inactive — not active: an inactive volcano.
  • inert — having no inherent power of action, motion, or resistance (opposed to active): inert matter.
  • out cold — having a relatively low temperature; having little or no warmth: cold water; a cold day.
  • out — away from, or not in, the normal or usual place, position, state, etc.: out of alphabetical order; to go out to dinner.
  • resting — that rests; not active.
  • sleeping — the state of a person, animal, or plant that sleeps.
  • somnolent — sleepy; drowsy.
  • conked — a method of chemically straightening the hair.
  • crashed — to make a loud, clattering noise, as of something dashed to pieces.
  • napping — to sleep for a short time; doze.
  • out like a light — If someone goes out like a light, they fall asleep or become unconscious very quickly or immediately.
  • out of it — away from, or not in, the normal or usual place, position, state, etc.: out of alphabetical order; to go out to dinner.
  • slumbering — to sleep, especially lightly; doze; drowse.

adjective asleep

  • dead to the world — unaware of one's surroundings, esp fast asleep or very drunk
  • numb — deprived of physical sensation or the ability to move: fingers numb with cold.
  • benumbed — made numb; very cold
  • insensible — incapable of feeling or perceiving; deprived of sensation; unconscious, as a person after a violent blow.
  • dead — A person, animal, or plant that is dead is no longer living.
  • lifeless — not endowed with life; having no life; inanimate: lifeless matter.

noun asleep

  • anaesthesia — Anaesthesia is the use of anaesthetics in medicine and surgery.
  • insentient — not sentient; without sensation or feeling; inanimate.
  • anesthesia — a partial or total loss of the sense of pain, temperature, touch, etc., produced by disease

adverb asleep

  • unready — not ready; not made ready: The new stadium is as yet unready for use.
  • off guard — to keep safe from harm or danger; protect; watch over: to guard the ruler.
  • flat-footed — having flatfeet.
  • watchful — vigilant or alert; closely observant: The sentry remained watchful throughout the night.
  • asleep at the switch — a slender, flexible shoot, rod, etc., used especially in whipping or disciplining.
  • off-guard — to keep safe from harm or danger; protect; watch over: to guard the ruler.
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