DROWSILY

drowsily, somnolently

(adverb) in a drowsy manner; “‘Time to get up,’ she said drowsily”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Adverb

drowsily (comparative more drowsily, superlative most drowsily)

In a drowsy manner.

She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realising that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.

Source: Wiktionary

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Drow"si*ly, adv.

Definition: In a drowsy manner.

DROWSY

Drow"sy, a. [Compar. Drowsier; superl. Drowsiest.]

1. Inclined to drowse; heavy with sleepiness; lethargic; dozy. "When I am drowsy." Shak. Dapples the drowsy east with spots of gray. Shak. To our age's drowsy blood Still shouts the inspiring sea. Lowell.

2. Disposing to sleep; lulling; soporific. The drowsy hours, dispensers of all good. Tennyson.

3. Dull; stupid. " Drowsy reasoning." Atterbury.

Syn.

– Sleepy; lethargic; dozy; somnolent; comatose; dull heavy; stupid.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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