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# drowsily

«drowsily» in Mova's school dictionary: **in a sleepy way, slow and half awake** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adverb (drowsily; the adjective is drowsy)

### meaning for a pupil

Drowsily means in a sleepy way, slow and half awake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drowsily/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories, a person speaks or moves slowly because they have just woken up or are about to fall asleep

### examples

- "Here it is," Ana said drowsily. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drowsily/#x1)
- He sat up drowsily and rubbed his eyes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drowsily/#x2)
- The baby blinked drowsily at the light. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drowsily/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «drowsily» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drowsily/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.