different between doltish vs sleepy

English

Etymology

dolt +? -ish

Adjective

doltish (comparative more doltish, superlative most doltish)

1. Like a dolt; dull in intellect; stupid.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

     Take off thine eye! more intolerable than fiends' glarings is a doltish stare!

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:stupid

Derived terms

• doltishness

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