An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
DROWSY
drowsy, oscitant, yawning
(adjective) showing lack of attention or boredom; “the yawning congregation”
drowsy, drowsing, dozy
(adjective) half asleep; “made drowsy by the long ride”; “it seemed a pity to disturb the drowsing (or dozing) professor”; “a tired dozy child”; “the nodding (or napping) grandmother in her rocking chair”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
drowsy (comparative drowsier, superlative drowsiest)
Inclined to drowse; heavy with sleepiness
Synonyms: lethargic, dozy
Causing someone to fall sleep or feel sleepy; lulling; soporific.
Boring.
Dull; stupid.
Source: Wiktionary
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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