Definition of DOZY

dozy

Adjective Satellite

  • half asleep
    • "a tired dozy child"

Adj

  • Quite sleepy or tired.
  • Intellectually slow.
  • Decaying, rotten, spongy.

Adjective

  • Feeling drowsy or sleepy.

Examples

  • Even a dozy player can sometimes pull off a surprising Scrabble win.
  • Jim is a dozy child.

Origin / Etymology

From doze + -y.

Synonyms

drowsing, drowsy, Boeotian, addlebrained, addlepated, adrowse, airheaded, ass-brained, bedroomy, bee-brained, beef-witted, beefheaded, beetle-headed, birdbrained, blighted, blockheaded, boneheaded, boofheaded, brainless, bubbleheaded, buffle-headed, bullet-headed, cankered, cerebrally challenged, childish, chowderheaded, chuckleheaded, crackbrained, cretinous, decayed, dense, dented, dim, dim-bulb, dim-headed, dim-witted, doltish, dopey, dotterel, doty, dozy, dragging one's tail, dull, dull-headed, dull-minded, dull-witted, dumb, dumb as a bag of hammers, dumb as a box of rocks, dumb as a doorknob, dumb as a post, dumb as a sack of hammers, dumb as an ox, dumb as dirt, dumber than a box of rocks, dumber than a rock, dunderheaded, empty-headed, eyelids at half-mast, fatheaded, feeble-minded, flea-brained, foolish, forworn, fuckwitted, fuzzy-headed, fuzzy-minded, half-brained, half-witted, hammer-headed, idiotic, imbecilic, inane, insipid, intellectually challenged, knuckleheaded, lamebrained, lowbrow, lumpish, lunkheaded, mentally challenged, mentally retarded, mindless, moldering, monosynaptic, moronic, muttonheaded, nitwitted, nodding off, not the sharpest crayon in the box, not the sharpest knife in the drawer, not the sharpest tool in the shed, numbskulled, oafish, obtuse, oscitant, out of steam, peabrained, pratty, pudding-headed, puerile, purblind, putrefacient, putrefactive, putrescent, putrid, quarter-witted, retarded, rockheaded, rotten, sharp as a bowling ball, sheep-headed, shit-for-brains, simple, sleepbound, sleepish, sleepy, slombry, slow, slow-witted, slumberful, slumberous, slumbersome, slumbery, smooth-brained, snoozy, somniculous, somnolent, somnolescent, stolid, stupid, thick, thick as a brick, thick as a plank, thick as a whale omelette, thick as champ, thick as mince, thick as pig shit, thick as two short planks, thick-skulled, thickheaded, thickwitted, tired, unapprehensive, unclever, unintelligent, unsmart, vacant, vacuous, witless, wooden-headed, wool-headed, woolly-headed, woolly-minded

Scrabble Score: 17

dozy: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
dozy: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
dozy: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 16

dozy: valid Words With Friends Word