drowsily

1. 1.

   in a drowsy manner

   “`Time to get up,' she said drowsily”

   Synonymssomnolently

Questions about drowsily

What does drowsily mean?

drowsily means "in a drowsy manner".

How many syllables are in drowsily?

drowsily has 3 syllables: drow-si-ly. The stress falls on "drow".

What is another word for drowsily?

Close synonyms include somnolently. 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 drowsily a common word?

drowsily is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.