abed

Synonyms for abed

adj inactive

adjective. asleep

Old English on bedde "in bed," from a- (1) + bed (n.). As one word from 17c.

It seemed to her that she awoke after sleeping some hours, and found Jeremiah not yet abed.

If the Son of Man be indeed coming, what matters it whether we be abed or afoot?'

It's after eight, and when I was little I was abed afore that.

And if I is abed, it's better nor being in bed-lam, isn't it?

I had brought with me a book that Madonna Lucrezia had sent me while I was yet abed.

While you have been abed, I have been up and doing; up and doing.

There were lights, but for all the sight of people Addington might have been abed.

It was some moments before my eyes could discover that the Earl was abed.

They whispered as parents do when their children are abed up-stairs.

“I would have washed it, and donned it, and put it abed,” said Clare.