Definition for Sleeping:

• lying asleep; " don't wake the sleeping children"; " gazed with affection at his slumbering form"

Synonyms for Sleeping:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • dormant.
  •asleep (adjective)
  • sacked out,
  • slumbering,
  • getting shut-eye,
  • inert,
  • abed,
  • out cold,
  • out like a light,
  • in dreamland,
  • comatose,
  • taking forty winks,
  • out of it,
  • catching some zzz's,
  • flaked out,
  • out,
  • napping,
  • in repose,
  • on the kip.
  •dormant (adjective)
  • Crashed,
  • inactive,
  • dreaming,
  • dozing,
  • conked,
  • Snoozing,
  • unconscious.
  •resting (adjective)
  • stretched out,
  • at rest,
  • at ease,
  • Resting,
  • taking it easy,
  • taking a break,
  • drowsing.
  •sleepy (adjective)
  • most sleepyhead,
  • snoozier,
  • snooziest,
  • most slumbersome,
  • dozier,
  • most yawning,
  • more sleepyhead,
  • draggier,
  • more yawning,
  • draggiest,
  • more slumbersome,
  • doziest.
  •somnifacient (adjective)
  • most opiate,
  • more opiate.
  •somnolent (adjective)
  • nodding off,
  • somnolent.

• n.

  •
  • awareness.
  •
  • action,
  • show,
  • abeyant.
  •act (noun)
  • sleeping.
  •dormancy (noun)
  • dormancy.
  •quiescence (noun)
  • quiescence.
  •quiescency (noun)
  • quiescency.
  •sleeping (noun)
  • unerect.

• v.

  •resting (verb)
  • calming,
  • tranquilizing,
  • settling,
  • Becalming,
  • waiting,
  • settling down,
  • Stagnating,
  • marking time,
  • Quieting,
  • Staying,
  • fixing,
  • Pausing,
  • subsiding,
  • Stilling,
  • Vegetating.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • unawake.
  •
  • quiescent.
  •reclining
  • lying down.

Paraphrases for Sleeping:

• Equivalence

  • Interjection
    sleep.

• Forward Entailment

  • Proper noun, singular
    sleeps, sleep.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    sleep.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    dive, ODSS, SOR, layer, dream.
  • Verb, past tense
    settled, awake, DO.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    sleepwalking, disappearing, spending, leaving, Liaising, accommodating, Residing, fucking, developing, living, Staying, intervening, reinforcing, Checking, happening, laying, connecting, setting, lodging, liaison, dreaming, lit, putting, harbouring, Bunking, Linking, crashing, going, Hosting, binding, Doing, Resting.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    downstairs, awake, stays, Rests, naps.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    Slept, sleeper, slumber, Resting, diaper, nap.

Antonyms for Sleeping:

• adj.

  • asleep
    conscious, awake.
  • Other antonyms:
    up, wakeful, aroused, aware, revived, upright, Wakened, wide-awake, vertical, astir, awakened, sleepless, erect.

• n.

  • cognition
    waking.

Sleeping Sentence Examples:

• Sleeping or working, however, my mind was always full of Francezka.

• He seemed so quiet when I went out - was sleeping like a baby.

Homophones for Sleeping:

• slavonic, salving, slip noose, solving, shelf fungus, sylvanus, salviniaceae, sloping, soil bank, slovenija, solvency, salpinx, silvanus, self-hypnosis, slipping, school of music, sleepiness, slap-bang, sloppiness.

Hypernym for Sleeping:

• n.

  • act
    snooze, drowse, sleepwalking, nap, somniloquism, light sleep, catnap, short sleep, forty winks, somnambulation, somnambulism, noctambulation, doze, noctambulism, sleep talking, somniloquy.

Hyponym for Sleeping:

• n.

  • act
    activity, bodily function, bodily process, body process.
  • cognition
    slumber, sleep.

Meronym for Sleeping:

• n.

  • cognition
    dreaming, dream.