Definition of Sleepier

1. Adjective. (comparative of sleepy) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sleepier

1. sleepy [adj] - See also: sleepy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sleepier

sleepdriving
sleepdrunk
sleepe
sleeper
sleeper berth
sleeper cell
sleeper cells
sleeper goby
sleeper nest
sleepers
sleepery
sleepest
sleepeth
sleepful
sleepfulness
sleepier (current term)
sleepiest
sleepily
sleepiness
sleepinesses
sleeping
sleeping around
sleeping at the switch
sleeping bag
sleeping bags
sleeping beauty
sleeping capsule
sleeping car
sleeping cars
sleeping draught

Literary usage of Sleepier

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"No, Sarah Ann, you can't, dear,' says she; and then she got her breath again, and says she, looking at me real meanin', ' I'm only a-gettin' sleepier and ..."

2. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1902)
"No, Sarah Ann, you can't, dear,' says she; and then she got her breath again, and says she, looking at me real meanin', ' I'm only a-gettin' sleepier and ..."

3. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson (1889)
"'No, Sarah Ann, you can't, dear,' says she; and then she got her breath again, and says she, looking at me real meanin', 'I'm only a-gettin' sleepier and ..."

4. All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal by Charles Dickens (1889)
"But I didn't try to tell all this to the company, who grew, like myself, sleepier and sleepier, while the story-teller went on and on with his castles, ..."

5. The Metropolitan (1831)
"Coach after coach arrived and departed, sleepier and sleepier grew the face of the passengers; indeed, one old lady was lifted out and back, snoring all the ..."

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