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# sleepily

«sleepily» in Mova's school dictionary: **In a drowsy way; half awake and ready to fall asleep** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adverb (sleepily, more sleepily, most sleepily)

### meaning for a pupil

In a drowsy way; half awake and ready to fall asleep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sleepily/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in the lessons characters speak or move while still half asleep, often at night or on waking

### examples

- She rubbed her eyes and yawned sleepily. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sleepily/#x1)
- The baby murmured sleepily. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sleepily/#x2)
- "Is it morning yet?" he asked sleepily. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sleepily/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

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