halfsleep

English

Etymology

From half- +‎ sleep.

Pronunciation

  • Audio (US):(file)

Noun

halfsleep (usually uncountable, plural halfsleeps)

  1. State between being awake and being asleep; light sleep.
    • 2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 55, in Nick, New York, Boston, London: Little, Brown and Company, page 269:
      Nick found Judah still out on the floor next to the open and emptied safe. Winded and slobbering in a halfsleep.

Translations

Adjective

halfsleep (not comparable)

  1. In halfsleep.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.