Thesaurus:asleep

Thesaurus:asleep

THESAURUS

asleep

English

Synonyms

• asleep

• cold    [WS]

• comatose (informal)

• dead to the world

• dormant

• down for the count (figuratively)

• nangry (obsolete, Australia)

• out cold

• out like a light (colloquial)

• sacked out (idiomatic)

• sleepbound (poetic)

• sleeping

• somnambular

• unawakening

• unawaking

• unwaking

Antonyms

• awake    [WS]

Hyponyms

Very asleep

• dead asleep

• fast asleep

• sound asleep

• zonked (slang)

Slightly asleep

• adoze

• half-asleep

• half-awake

Activity whilst asleep

• somnambulant

• somnambulic

• somnambulistic

• somniloquous

Hypernyms

• inactive    [WS]

• unconscious

See also

• Thesaurus:sleepy

Further reading

• “683. inactivity” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “asleep” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.