asleep

1. 1.

   into a sleeping state

   “he fell asleep”
2. 2.

   in the sleep of death

Other forms of asleep

comparative

asleeper·

superlative

asleepest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about asleep

What does asleep mean?

asleep means "in a state of sleep". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in asleep?

asleep has 2 syllables: a-sleep. The stress falls on "sleep". In IPA it is /əˈslip/.

What is another word for asleep?

Close synonyms include benumbed, numb, at peace, at rest, deceased. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of asleep?

The recorded antonyms are awake.

Is asleep a common word?

asleep is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with asleep?

2 words rhyme with asleep. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.