different between sleepy vs indolent

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

English

Etymology

From French indolent, from Latin indolens, from in- (“not”) +? dol?ns (“hurting”), from doleo (“to hurt”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /??n.d?.l?nt/

Adjective

indolent (comparative more indolent, superlative most indolent)

1. Habitually lazy, procrastinating, or resistant to physical labor
2. Inducing laziness

3. (medicine) Causing little or no physical pain; progressing slowly; inactive (of an ulcer, etc.)
4. (medicine) Healing slowly

Synonyms

• idle, work-shy; see also Thesaurus:lazy

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• deltonin, nontiled

French

Etymology

From Latin indolentem, accusative singular masculine and feminine of indol?ns, from in- (“not”) + dol?ns (“pain”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.d?.l??/
• Homophone: indolents

Adjective

indolent (feminine singular indolente, masculine plural indolents, feminine plural indolentes)

1. indolent (all senses)

German

Etymology

Borrowed from French indolent.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ndo?l?nt/, /??ndol?nt/
• Hyphenation: in?do?lent

Adjective

indolent (comparative indolenter, superlative am indolentesten)

1. indolent (mentally lazy)

   Synonym: denkfaul

2. (medicine) insensible to pain

Declension

Related terms

• Indolenz

Further reading

• “indolent” in Duden online
• “indolent” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Romanian

Etymology

From French indolent, from Latin indolens.

Adjective

indolent m or n (feminine singular indolent?, masculine plural indolen?i, feminine and neuter plural indolente)

1. indolent

Declension