doze off

1. 1.

   change from a waking to a sleeping state

   “he always falls asleep during lectures”

   Synonymsfall asleepdope offflake outdrift offnod offdrop offdrowse off

   Narrowerzonk out

Questions about doze off

What does doze off mean?

doze off means "change from a waking to a sleeping state".

What is another word for doze off?

Close synonyms include fall asleep, dope off, flake out, drift off, nod off. 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.

Is doze off a common word?

doze off is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.