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dozy

dozy adjective: quite sleepy or tired.

Adjective

dozy (comparative dozier, superlative doziest)

  1. Quite sleepy or tired.
    Synonyms:
    drowsy, somnolent, adrowse, bedroomy, dopey, dragging one's tail, eyelids at half-mast, nodding off, oscitant, out of steam
  2. Intellectually slow.
    • Jim is a dozy child.
  3. Decaying, rotten, spongy.
    • dozy wood

dozy meaning in Malayalam and Assamese

dozy in Malayalam

sleepy, drowsy, half asleep
ഉറക്കംതൂങ്ങുന്ന, മയക്കമുള്ള, നിദ്രാലുവായ, പാതിയുറക്കത്തിലായ, അർദ്ധനിദ്രാവസ്ഥയിലായ, ഉറക്കംതൂങ്ങിക്കൊണ്ടുള്ള

dozy in Assamese

sleepy
কলামলা kolamola, কলাঘুমটীয়া kolaghumotia

Synonyms of dozy

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Forms of dozy

comparativedozier
superlativedoziest

Origin of dozy

From doze + -y.

Words formed from dozy

Phrases with dozy

Questions about dozy

What does dozy mean?
Dozy means quite sleepy or tired.
What is dozy in Malayalam?
Dozy in Malayalam is ഉറക്കംതൂങ്ങുന്ന, മയക്കമുള്ള, നിദ്രാലുവായ. See Dozy meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is dozy?
Dozy is an adjective.

Words near dozy in the dictionary

  1. doziness
  2. dozing
  3. dozing off
  4. dozings
  5. Dozogiri
  6. dozy
  7. Dozy Don
  8. dozyite
  9. dozzle
  10. dozzled
  11. dozzles

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dozy (page history and authors); dozy (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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