halfsleep

English

Etymology

From half- +‎ sleep.

Pronunciation

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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

state between being awake and being asleep

• Hungarian: félálom (hu)
• Italian: dormiveglia (it) f
• Polish: półsenny
• Russian: полусон (ru) m (poluson)
• Spanish: duermevela (es) m or f

Adjective

halfsleep (not comparable)

1. In halfsleep.