Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
abraid | (Spenser) to awake, arouse. |
abray | (Spenser) to awake, arouse. |
aisling | (Irish) a vision or dream. |
antisleep | opposed to sleep. |
awake | not asleep; (verb) to wake up. |
awaken | to awake. |
awakener | one that awakens. |
awoken | (PaP.) AWAKE, to wake up. |
catnap | to take a short nap. |
cauchemar | (Fr.) a nightmare. |
daydream | a waking dream; (verb) to fantasize. |
daydreamlike | like a daydream > DAYDREAMIER, DAYDREAMIEST. |
daydreamy | given to daydreaming. |
daymare | a terrifying experience, similar to a nightmare, felt while awake. |
dogsleep | pretended sleep. |
dormient | (Arch.) sleeping, dormant. |
dormition | the act of sleeping; falling asleep. |
dove | a pigeon; (verb, Scots) to doze. |
dover | (Scots) to doze. |
doze | a light sleep (verb) to sleep lightly |
dozen | twelve; (verb, Scots) to doze. |
dozer | one who dozes. |
dozily | (Adv.) DOZY, sleepy. |
doziness | the state of being dozy. |
dozy | sleepy. |
dream | a series of images occurring during sleep (verb) to have a dream |
dreamer | one that dreams. |
dreamery | a place favourable to dreams. |
dreamful | full of dreams. |
dreamfully | (Adv.) DREAMFUL. |
dreamily | (Adv.) DREAMY, given to dreaming. |
dreaminess | the state of being dreamy. |
dreamingly | (Adv.) DREAMING. |
dreamless | free from, or without, dreams. |
dreamlessly | (Adv.) DREAMLESS, free from, or without, dreams. |
dreamlike | like a dream. |
dreamwhile | the duration of a dream. |
dreamworld | a world of illusion or fantasy. |
dreamy | given to dreaming. |
drowse | to doze. |
drowsihead | (Spenser) drowsiness. |
drowsihed | (Spenser) drowsiness. |
drowsily | (Adv.) DROWSY, sleepy. |
drowsiness | the state of being drowsy. |
drowsy | sleepy. |
fainty | faintish. |
hibernate | to pass the winter in a dormant state. |
hypnagogic | of, relating to, or occurring in the period of drowsiness immediately preceding sleep. |
hypnogenetic | relating to the production of hypnotic sleep. |
hypnogenic | relating to the production of hypnotic sleep. |
hypnogogic | of, relating to, or occurring in the period of drowsiness immediately preceding sleep. |
hypnoid | like sleep or hypnosis. |
hypnoidal | like sleep or hypnosis. |
hypnology | the study of sleep or hypnosis. |
hypnopompic | pertaining to the semiconscious state before waking. |
hypnotee | one who is hypnotised. |
hypnotise | to put in a state of hypnosis. |
hypnotism | the science of practice of hypnosis. |
hypnotist | one who practises hypnotism. |
hypnotistic | relating to a hypnotist. |
hypnotize | to put in a state of hypnosis. |
insomnia | chronic inability to sleep. |
insomniac | one who suffers from insomnia. |
insomnious | restless; sleepless. |
insomnolence | sleeplessness. |
lull | a break, a period of calm; (verb) to cause to sleep or rest. |
luller | one who lulls. |
lullingly | in a lulling manner. |
microsleep | a very short sleep. |
nap | a short sleep; (verb) to take a short sleep. |
narcose | experiencing a hallucinogenic stupor. |
nightmare | a bad dream. |
nightmarish | like a nightmare. |
nightmarishly | (Adv.) NIGHTMARISH, like a nightmare. |
nightmary | like a nightmare. |
noctambulism | somnambulism. |
noctambulist | a sleepwalker, a somnambulist. |
nympholepsy | a trance incurred by erotic daydreams. |
nympholept | one in state of nympholepsy, a trance incurred by erotic daydreams. |
nympholeptic | relating to nympholepsy. |
oneiric | pertaining to dreams. |
oneirically | (Adv.) ONEIRIC, pertaining to dreams. |
oneirocritic | one who interprets dreams. |
oneirocritical | of, relating to or specializing in the interpretation of dreams. |
oscitance | yawning, sleepiness. |
oscitancy | yawning, sleepiness. |
oscitation | yawning, sleepiness. |
outdream | to pass, or escape, while dreaming. |
outsleep | to exceed in sleeping. |
oversleep | to sleep past a planned time for waking. |
pandiculation | a stretching out when drowsy or when waking. |
phantasmagoria | a fantastic sequence of haphazardly associative imagery, as seen in dreams or fever. |
phantasmagorial | of or like a phantasmagoria. |
phantasmagoric | of or like a phantasmagoria. |
phantasmagory | a fantastic sequence of haphazardly associative imagery, as seen in dreams or fever. |
presleep | before sleep. |
rearousal | the act of rearousing. |
rearouse | to arouse again. |
reawake | to awake again. |
reawaken | to awaken again. |
reawoken | (PaP.) REAWAKE, to awake. |
redream | to dream again. |
reveur | (Fr.) a daydreamer. |
reveuse | (Fr.) a (female) daydreamer. |
rewake | to wake again. |
rewaken | to waken again. |
rouse | to bring out of a state of sleep or inactivity. |
rousing | stirring. |
rousingly | (Adv.) ROUSING, stirring. |
shakedown | any makeshift bed, esp one made up on the floor. |
shuteye | (Coll.) sleep. |
siesta | (Spanish) a midday or afternoon nap. |
sleep | a natural, periodic state of rest (verb) to be in a natural, periodic state of rest |
sleeper | one that sleeps. |
sleepery | (Scots) sleepy. |
sleepily | (Adv.) SLEEPY, full of sleep. |
sleepiness | the state of being sleepy. |
sleepless | without sleep. |
sleeplessness | the state of being sleepless. |
sleeplike | like sleep. |
sleepout | the act of sleeping outdoors overnight. |
sleepover | the custom of staying overnight at a friend's house. |
sleepry | (Scots) sleepy. |
sleepwalk | to walk in one's sleep. |
sleepwalker | one who sleepwalks. |
sleepy | full of sleep. |
sleepyheaded | given to sleep. |
sloom | slumber (verb) to doze, slumber |
slumber | sleep (verb) to sleep |
slumberer | one who slumbers. |
slumberful | sleepy, |
slumberingly | (Adv.) SLUMBERING. |
slumberland | the state of slumber. |
slumberless | without slumber. |
slumberous | inviting or causing slumber. |
slumberously | (Adv.) SLUMBEROUS, causing slumber. |
slumberousness | the state of being slumberous. |
slumbersome | sleepy. |
slumbery | full of slumber > SLUMBERIER, SLUMBERIEST. |
slumbrous | full of sleep. |
slumbrously | (Adv.) SLUMBROUS, full of sleep. |
slumbrousness | the state of being slumbrous. |
slumbry | full of slumber. |
snooze | a brief light sleep; (verb) to sleep lightly |
snoozer | one who snoozes. |
snoozle | (Coll.) to nuzzle and then sleep. |
snoozy | given to snoozing. |
somnambulance | sleepwalking. |
somnambulant | having the habit of walking while asleep; (noun) a sleepwalker. |
somnambular | relating to somnambulation, sleepwalking. |
somnambulary | relating to somnambulation, sleepwalking. |
somnambulate | to walk when asleep. |
somnambulation | sleepwalking. |
somnambulator | a sleepwalker. |
somnambule | a sleepwalker. |
somnambulic | like a somnambule, a sleepwalker. |
somnambulism | an abnormal condition of sleep in which motor acts, such as walking, are performed. |
somnambulist | a sleepwalker. |
somnambulistic | relating to somnambulism. |
somnial | pertaining to dreams. |
somniate | to dream. |
somniative | pertaining to sleep or dreams. |
somniatory | pertaining to sleep or dreams. |
somniferous | causing sleep. |
somniferously | (Adv.) SOMNIFEROUS, causing sleep. |
somnific | causing sleep. |
somniloquence | talking in one's sleep. |
somniloquous | talking in one's sleep. |
somniloquy | the act or habit of talking while asleep. |
somnolence | sleepiness. |
somnolency | sleepiness. |
somnolent | sleepy; causing, or resembling, sleep. |
somnolently | (Adv.) SOMNOLENT, sleepy. |
somnolescent | becoming sleepy. |
sopite | to put to sleep, make drowsy. |
sopor | a profound sleep from which a person can be roused only with difficulty. |
soporiferous | causing or tending to cause sleep. |
soporiferously | (Adv.) SOPORIFEROUS, causing or tending to cause sleep. |
soporific | tending to produce sleep (noun) a drug producing sleep |
soporifically | (Adv.) SOPORIFIC, tending to produce sleep. |
soporose | causing sleep; sleepy. |
soporous | causing sleep; sleepy. |
sweven | (Obs.) a dream, vision. |
trancedly | (Adv.) TRANCED, in a trance. |
unawake | not awake. |
unawaked | not awakened. |
undreaming | not dreaming. |
unsleeping | not sleeping; (noun) the absence of sleep. |
unslumbering | not slumbering. |
unslumbrous | not slumbrous. |
unwaked | not waked. |
unwakened | not wakened. |
uprouse | to rouse up; to arouse. |
vigil | a period of watchfulness maintained during normal sleeping hours. |
vigilance | the state of being vigilant. |
wake | a watch or vigil beside a corpse, the night before a funeral; (verb) to rouse from sleep. |
wakeful | not sleeping or able to sleep. |
wakefully | (Adv.) WAKEFUL, not sleeping. |
wakefulness | the state of being wakeful. |
waken | to wake. |
wakener | one who wakens. |
waker | one who wakes. |
wakerife | (Scots) wakeful, vigilant. |
waukrife | (Scots) wakeful, vigilant. |
woken | (PaP.) WAKE, to rouse from sleep. |
ziz | a nap or sleep; (verb) to take a nap. |
zizz | a nap or sleep; (verb) to snooze. |