Antonyms for sleeping

Grammar : Adj

Spell : slee-ping

Phonetic Transcription : ˈsli pɪŋ

Definition of sleeping

Origin : c.1300, past participle adjective from sleep (v.). Sleeping-pill is from 1660s; sleeping-bag is from 1850; sleeping sickness as a specific African tropical disease is first recorded 1875; sleeping has been used since late 14c. for diseases marked by morbid conditions. Sleeping Beauty (1729) is Perrault's La belle au bois dormant.

adj dormant
adj asleep

Example sentences :

Or is there really no sin but in thought, and are our sleeping thoughts incapable of sin?
Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

The sea is sleeping sapphire that wakes to cream and crash upon the beach.
Extract from : « Ballads of a Bohemian » by Robert W. Service

A man is but a beast as he lives from day to day, eating and drinking, breathing and sleeping.
Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle

He had been sleeping badly since Sidney's announcement of her engagement.
Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart

All the houses were of two stories, of which the upper was open on the sides, and used for sleeping.
Extract from : « The Trail Book » by Mary Austin

Keep me in my duty from sleeping on my post and from false security.
Extract from : « Camps, Quarters and Casual Places » by Archibald Forbes

I made him come—old grandfather, sleeping there: he does not count, but you—you!
Extract from : « Green Mansions » by W. H. Hudson

"It is only a sleeping potion," said the enchantress to Prince Jason.
Extract from : « Tanglewood Tales » by Nathaniel Hawthorne

You have now your personal things for eating, sleeping and riding.
Extract from : « A Woman Tenderfoot » by Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson

So run away to your dreams now, that Santa Claus may find you sleeping.'
Extract from : « A Little Book of Profitable Tales » by Eugene Field

Synonyms for sleeping

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