fall asleep

Questions about fall asleep

What does fall asleep mean?

fall asleep means "change from a waking to a sleeping state".

What is another word for fall asleep?

Close synonyms include dope off, flake out, drift off, nod off, drop 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.

What is the opposite of fall asleep?

The recorded antonyms are wake up.

Is fall asleep a common word?

fall asleep 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.