sleepily

1. 1.

   in a sleepy manner

   “the two children who were snuggled sleepily in the back of the car”

Questions about sleepily

What does sleepily mean?

sleepily means "in a sleepy manner".

How many syllables are in sleepily?

sleepily has 3 syllables: slee-pi-ly. The stress falls on "slee". In IPA it is /ˈslipəli/.

Is sleepily a common word?

sleepily 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.