Defenition of the word sleeping

• Defenition of the word sleeping

  • (heraldry) lying with head on paws as if sleeping
  • quiet and inactive restfulness
  • the suspension of consciousness and decrease in metabolic rate
  • the state of being asleep
  • lying asleep; "don't wake the sleeping children"; "gazed with affection at his slumbering form"
  • lying with head on paws as if sleeping

Synonyms for the word sleeping

• • dormancy
  • dormant
  • quiescence
  • quiescency
  • slumbering

Similar words in the sleeping

• • asleep
  • unerect

Meronymys for the word sleeping

• • dream
  • dreaming

Hyponyms for the word sleeping

• • cat sleep
  • catnap
  • doze
  • drowse
  • forty winks
  • nap
  • noctambulation
  • noctambulism
  • short sleep
  • sleep talking
  • sleepwalking
  • snooze
  • somnambulation
  • somnambulism
  • somniloquism
  • somniloquy
  • vegetation

Hypernyms for the word sleeping

• • activity
  • bodily function
  • bodily process
  • body process
  • ease
  • relaxation
  • repose
  • rest
  • sleep
  • slumber

Antonyms for the word sleeping

• • waking

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  • Meaning of the word sleepwalks
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  • Synonym for the word sound asleep
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  • Homonyms for the word fast asleep
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