Word Meanings - SLEEPING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

from Sleep. Sleeping car, a railway car or carrriage, arranged with apartments and berths for sleeping. -- Sleeping partner , a dormant partner. See under Dormant. -- Sleeping table , a stationary inclined platform on which pulverized

Additional info about word: SLEEPING

from Sleep. Sleeping car, a railway car or carrriage, arranged with apartments and berths for sleeping. -- Sleeping partner , a dormant partner. See under Dormant. -- Sleeping table , a stationary inclined platform on which pulverized ore is washed; a kind of buddle.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SLEEPING)

• Dormant
• Sleeping
• slumbering
• latent
• undeveloped
• quiescent
• inert

Related words: (words related to SLEEPING)

• SLUMBERY
  Sleepy. Chaucer.
• SLEEPWALKER
  One who walks in his sleep; a somnambulist.
• INERTIA
  That property of matter by which it tends when at rest to remain so, and when in motion to continue in motion, and in the same straight line or direction, unless acted on by some external force; - - sometimes called vis inertiæ. 2. Inertness;
• SLEEP-AT-NOON
  A plant which closes its flowers at midday; a kind of goat's beard. Dr. Prior.
• SLUMBERER
  One who slumbers; a sleeper.
• SLEEPLESS
  1. Having no sleep; wakeful. 2. Having no rest; perpetually agitated. "Biscay's sleepless bay." Byron. -- Sleep"less*ly, adv. -- Sleep"less*ness, n.
• SLEEPWAKING
  The state of one mesmerized, or in a partial and morbid sleep.
• DORMANT
  In a sleeping posture; as, a lion dormant; -- distinguished from couchant. Dormant partner , a partner who takes no share in the active business of a company or partnership, but is entitled to a share of the profits, and subject to a
• SLEEPWAKER
  On in a state of magnetic or mesmeric sleep.
• SLEEPMARKEN
  See 4
• INERTLY
  Without activity; sluggishly. Pope.
• SLEEPFUL
  Strongly inclined to sleep; very sleepy. -- Sleep"ful*ness, n.
• SLEEPISH
  Disposed to sleep; sleepy; drowsy. Your sleepish, and more than sleepish, security. Ford.
• INERTNESS
  1. Want of activity or exertion; habitual indisposition to action or motion; sluggishness; apathy; insensibility. Glanvill. Laziness and inertness of mind. Burke. 2. Absence of the power of self-motion; inertia.
• INERT
  1. Destitute of the power of moving itself, or of active resistance to motion; as, matter is inert. 2. Indisposed to move or act; very slow to act; sluggish; dull; inactive; indolent; lifeless. The inert and desponding party of the court. Macaulay.
• SLEEP
  imp. of Sleep. Slept. Chaucer.
• SLUMBERINGLY
  In a slumbering manner.
• SLEEPING
  from Sleep. Sleeping car, a railway car or carrriage, arranged with apartments and berths for sleeping. -- Sleeping partner , a dormant partner. See under Dormant. -- Sleeping table , a stationary inclined platform on which pulverized
• QUIESCENTLY
  In a quiescent manner.
• SLUMBER
  slumber; akin to D. sluimeren to slumber, MHG. slummern, slumen, G. 1. To sleep; especially, to sleep lightly; to doze. Piers Plowman. He that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. Ps. cxxi. 4. 2. To be in a state of negligence, sloth,
• ACQUIESCENTLY
  In an acquiescent manner.
• OUTSLEEP
  To exceed in sleeping. Shak.
• ASLEEP
  1. In a state of sleep; in sleep; dormant. Fast asleep the giant lay supine. Dryden. By whispering winds soon lulled asleep. Milton. 2. In the sleep of the grave; dead. Concerning them which are asleep . . . sorrow not, even as others which have
• DOGSLEEP
  The fitful naps taken when all hands are kept up by stress. (more info) 1. Pretended sleep. Addison.