Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - sleepwalk

(sleepwalks, sleepwalking, sleepwalked) If someone is sleepwalking, they are walking around while they are asleep. He once sleepwalked to the middle of the road outside his home at 1 a.m. VERB: V SLEEPY (sleepier, sleepiest) 1. If you are sleepy, you are very tired and are almost asleep. I was beginning to feel amazingly sleepy... ADJ: usu v-link ADJ • sleepily Joanna sat up, blinking sleepily. ADV: ADV with v • sleepiness He tried to fight the sleepiness that overwhelmed him. N-UNCOUNT 2. A sleepy place is quiet and does not have much activity or excitement. Valence is a sleepy little town just south of Lyon. ADJ: usu ADJ n