Word forms: comparative dozier, superlative doziest
1. adjective
If you are dozy, you are feeling sleepy and not very alert.
Maybe I eat too much and that's what makes me dozy.
Synonyms: drowsy, sleepy, dozing, nodding More Synonyms of dozy
2. adjective
If you describe someone as dozy, you mean they are rather stupid and slow to understand things.
[informal, disapproval]
More Synonyms of dozy
dozy in British English
(ˈdəʊzɪ)
adjectiveWord forms: dozier or doziest
1.
drowsy
2. British informal
stupid
Derived forms
dozily (ˈdozily)
adverb
doziness (ˈdoziness)
noun
dozy in American English
(ˈdoʊzi)
adjectiveWord forms: ˈdozier or ˈdoziest
sleepy; drowsy
Derived forms
dozily (ˈdozily)
adverb
doziness (ˈdoziness)
noun
Word origin
see doze1
Examples of 'dozy' in a sentence
dozy
But a tiny hidden camera gave officers a perfect picture of the dozy thief.
The Sun (2008)
After the terrifying three-hour ordeal they discovered the gun-toting cops had initially only wanted to speak to them because their dozy van driver had been parked illegally.
The Sun (2008)
1 (adjective)
Definition
feeling sleepy
Eating too much makes me dozy.
Synonyms
drowsy
He felt pleasantly drowsy.
sleepy
I was beginning to feel amazingly sleepy.
dozing
nodding
half asleep
2 (adjective)
Definition
stupid and slow-witted
(British, informal)
Some dozy bloke ignored the warning signs and drove into a lake.