dozing

Speech parts

1. dozing - Noun

2. dozing - Verb

Meaning

of Doze

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

rest sleepy sleeping asleep dormant dreaming comatose slumber drowsy napping doze dozy snooze somnolent drowse
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Antonyms

active sleepless wakeful aware alive conscious
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Phrases with the word

be dozing light dozing

Examples

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox. Laozi

When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition. Brian Eno

Emma was no asleep, she was pretending to be asleep; and, while he was dozing off at her side, she lay awake, dreaming other dreams. Gustave Flaubert

I like the fact you can spend two hours setting up a scene that will only last a couple of seconds. And I like just sitting around and dozing between scenes! Mackenzie Crook

He shook my dozing soul and threw the cold water of reality in my face, so that life and God and heaven and hell broke into my world with glory and horror. (on CS Lewis) John Piper

Famously, Gwyneth Paltrow invited her over for dinner, Bradley Cooper refused to answer her questions and Nicki Minaj kept dozing off mid-interview. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

doziest dozily doziness dozy dozyite dozzle