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taking forty winks

  • as inasleep
  • as insnooze
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Synonyms for taking forty winks

adj unconscious
  • comatose
  • dormant
  • catching some zzz's
  • conked
  • crashed
  • dozing
  • dreaming
  • flaked out
  • getting shut-eye
  • hibernating
  • in dreamland
  • in repose
  • inactive
  • inert
  • napping
  • on the kip
  • out
  • out cold
  • out like a light
  • out of it
  • reposing
  • resting
  • sacked out
  • sleeping
  • slumbering
  • snoozing
  • snoring
  • somnolent
  • taking forty winks

Antonyms for taking forty winks

  • attentive
  • awake
  • conscious
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More words related to taking forty winks

asleep

adjective. unconscious
  • catching some zzz's
  • comatose
  • conked
  • crashed
  • dormant
  • dozing
  • dreaming
  • flaked out
  • getting shut-eye
  • hibernating
  • in dreamland
  • in repose
  • inactive
  • inert
  • napping
  • on the kip
  • out
  • out cold
  • out like a light
  • out of it
  • reposing
  • resting
  • sacked out
  • sleeping
  • slumbering
  • snoozing
  • snoring
  • somnolent
  • taking forty winks
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.