Adjective

sleepy (comparative sleepier, superlative sleepiest)

Positive sleepy

Comparative sleepier

Superlative sleepiest

1. Tired; feeling the need for sleep.

Synonyms

• tired
• See also Wikisaurus:sleepy

Noun

Singular sleepy

Plural uncountable

sleepy (uncountable)

1. (informal) The gum that builds up in the eye.
   • 1964, Ken Kesey, Sometimes a great notion

     "Did he always leave the sleepy in his eyes?" "Never removed it; let it build up in the comers of his eyes over the weeks until it was heavy enough to fall...

   • 1991, Martin Amis, London fields

     But the nightdress was heavy, the sleepy in her eyes was heavy, her hair (she made a mustache of one of its locks) was heavy and smelled of cigarettes...

Sleepy may refer to:

• Sleepy (character), a character in the film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
• Sleepy Bill Burns (1880-1953), American baseball player
• Sleepy Brown (21st century), African American musician
• Sleepy Floyd (born 1960), retired American professional basketball player
• Sleepy John Estes (1899-1977), African American musician
• Sleepy LaBeef (born 1935), American rockabilly musician
• Sleepy Tripp (born 1953), American racecar driver