The term drowsy refers to a person who is " drowsy," that is, one who feels married, listless, or downcast. Its use is present in everyday speech among people, so it is rare to find it in literary or much less academic texts.
Drowsy does not mean the same as exhausted, since the former is synonymous with laziness, while one feels exhausted when he has done a job or an activity that consumed a lot of energy to keep going.
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The Royal Spanish Academy has several definitions for "drowsiness." She describes it as an adjective that refers to a deep drowsy state in a person, but it is also said drowsiness to the fruit that loses color and begins to ferment. This state is also designated as the verb "to sleep."
The truth is that the term drowsy is of vulgar use. It can be heard very frequently in popular speech, and to a lesser extent in the media. Where you will not find yourself often is in the academic field or literary texts.
Drowsiness is also a disease typical of sheep. It occurs in newborns up to the age of one or a year and a half and later than those ages, it is rare.
When grazing in fertile lands abundant in nutritious or aromatic plants, a larva is generated in the brain of the cow that stuns it. A sheep that "sleeps" tends to have its head lowered or does not follow the flock.
But the "drowsiness" was not associated throughout history only to an evil in animals. During the Spanish conquest over a large part of America, a peculiar phenomenon called "plague drowsiness" occurred.
This disease caused a very deep sleep in those who suffered from it, so deep that it led them to death because they could not feed or hydrate.
Etymology
The word modorro comes from the Basque language and referred to a tree without branches. Hence, it began to be associated with "sleeping like a log." Later it was also used in Spanish, becoming "drowsiness" to indicate that a person is sleepy and "drowsiness", which is making someone sleepy.
In Spanish the use of the word moderation is even common even today, and it is used to indicate that a person is not very awake, that he is stupid.
Synonyms
Some words that mean the same thing as drowsy are "lazy," "reluctant," "sleepy," "dazed," "lethargic," "transposed," "lethargic," "dull," "lazy," or "down."
Antonyms
The words against drowsy are "upbeat," "enthusiastic," "energetic," "motivated," "emphatic," "vigorous," "full," "savvy," or "lively."
Usage examples
"Every time I wake up in the morning I feel drowsy."
"Today after lunch I felt very sleepy to continue with my work."
"In winter I have a lot of drowsiness to go jogging in the park."
"After a week in the fridge, the orange began to drowsy and I had to throw it away."
"Both teams did not find a precise game and the match was drowsy."
"During the years of the dictatorship, the people seemed drowsy, without energy to transform reality."
"After a hot bath I always feel drowsy."
"What a drowsiness, it's Monday!"
"The other day I met a man who was quite a downer."
"Drowsiness generates in some sheep a decrease in appetite and locomotor problems, among others."
References
- Drowsiness. (2019). Royal Spanish Academy. Recovered from: dle.rae.es
- Modorro (2019). Peraleo Dialectal Dictionary. Recovered from: raicesdeperaleda.com
- Francois Rozier (1801). Complete Course or Universal Dictionary of Agriculture. Recovered from: books.google.bg
- Noble David Cook (1998). Born to Die: Diseasse and New World Conquest. Recovered at: books.google.bg.
- Plague Drowsiness. (2019). "The incredible and sad story of Santa María de la Antigua del Darién, the first city founded by the Spanish in the" Tierra Firme "of America". Recovered from: bbc.com/mundo