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单词 dopey
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Definition of dopey in English:

dopey

(also dopy)
adjectivedopier, dopiest ˈdəʊpiˈdoʊpi
informal
  • 1Stupefied by sleep or a drug.

    she was under sedation and a bit dopey
    Example sentencesExamples
    • With any luck I'll be out like a light (I'm feeling pretty dopey already after a hard weekend of traveling and drinking) and sleep through to 7.00 am.
    • This means I'm dopey (more than usual), grumpy and disorganised.
    • A head cold hit me like an anvil last week, and that usually means I'm going to feel too dopey or muddled to write a review.
    • As a personal observation, most heavy users have a dopey look about them.
    • All I had to do now was sleep for a while… and get rid of this dopey, woozy feeling so I could run.
    • Yeah, okay, that's enough to make anyone dopey.
    • I was feeling sick, and dopey, from the cigarette, from lack of sleep, or from not being able to see the road ahead.
    • I stumbled into work, bleary-eyed and dopey and at the first opportunity purchased a fruit juice smoothie from one of the hundreds of juice bars springing up all over the city.
    • Did we learn anything of value about our fellow human beings from the exercise, other than that they get dopey and argumentative when deprived of sleep for up to seven days?
    • A regime of painkilling drugs was prescribed to make her as comfortable as possible, and my only concern with this was that it made her very dopey, and not her usual bright and alert self.
    Synonyms
    dazed, confused, muddled, befuddled, bewildered, disoriented, disorientated, stupefied, groggy, dizzy
    informal woozy, muzzy, woolly, woolly-headed, not with it, discombobulated
    1. 1.1 Very foolish; idiotic.
      did you ever hear such dopey names?
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He's just going to give up the anchor duties after this next election, and then he's going to hang around and do dopey specials, so he is not going to go anywhere.
      • It's such a fiercely unique movie, uncompromising in its visual excitement, that we're inclined to overlook the slightly dopey plot and shaky acting.
      • I know that's dopey, and certainly not very hip.
      • This dress is actually fairly dopey looking.
      • One former reporter recalls an incident when the senior magistrate of the area was sitting and a particularly dopey defendant was in the dock for a motoring offence.
      • What is not so dopey, however, is the alternative notion that his one-foot-in-front-of-the-other approach is not only strategic, but actually quite shrewd.
      • With its wobbly sets, sensationalist plots, appalling acting, crude camerawork and dopey dialogue it was uncannily reminiscent of bad soaps in general.
      • It is not a dopey thing to tell yourself over and over again: I'm a good person, I'm a worthwhile person, I can be successful, I'm good enough to do this.
      • So I'm dopey and filled with ego and I'll be damned if I'm going to admit defeat and switch to an off-the-shelf solution.
      • He almost becomes one of the family, cheerfully going out gambling with her dopey, reprobate nephew.
      • It could have been a global energy powerhouse by now if its dopey directors of days gone by hadn't been so blinkered in their outlook when it came to oil and gas opportunities.
      • The dopey scene, in which her lady-in-waiting, Alice, teaches her English, has been powerfully reinterpreted, with Katherine using her newly acquired vocabulary to taunt her guards.
      • The song is pretty good, until the middle, which has this dopey spoken/sung part that's very clumsy.
      • Puppets can't vote, but these dopey kids who watch you can.
      • Still, I couldn't help but feel that I sounded dopey.
      • It's a dopey collector who doesn't get them already.
      • ‘I've had it with these dopey little countries,’ he writes.
      • Not only had I failed in my duties, but some other guy - a dopey, shifty guy we both knew - had sent her flowers with a card attached.
      • It looks like those dopey movies that we all grew up seeing on late-night TV.
      • Everybody has a couple of dopey musicals that they are happy to watch over and over while their friends wrinkle their noses and say, ‘You actually like this?’
      Synonyms
      stupid, foolish, senseless, brainless, mindless, idiotic, imbecilic, imbecile, insane, lunatic, asinine, ridiculous, ludicrous, absurd, preposterous, silly, inane, witless, half-baked, empty-headed, unintelligent, half-witted, slow-witted, weak-minded

Derivatives

  • dopily

  • adverbˈdəʊpɪliˈdoʊpəli
    informal
    • 1In a stupefied or sleepy manner.

      I started my day very dopily and was woken abruptly
      1. 1.1 In a foolish manner.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • the gnats buzz dopily around
      • He is dopily debonair, sings commandingly, and has enough comic tricks to fill an encyclopedia.
      • I caught myself in the process of smiling dopily.
      • I bumbled through the weekend dopily and fell into a heavy sleep last night - my bed too comfortable, hot water bottle too comforting.
      • the boy looked up and grinned dopily
      • she dopily suspects he's referring to somebody other than himself
      • as submodifier the dopily optimistic, peace-loving son
  • dopiness

  • noun ˈdəʊpɪnəsˈdoʊpinəs
    mass nouninformal
    • 1A state of stupefaction or sleepiness.

      after being zapped into a state of melancholy dopiness, they turned to Latham to energize the party
      1. 1.1 The quality of being foolish.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • This giant pooch sat there in complete dopiness.
      • It seemed that nothing could beat this for sheer dopiness.
      • We're most often tempted to dismiss it as a piece of colourful dopiness, but then moments of self-awareness and cunning rise to the surface.
      • I simply cannot comprehend this genuine dopiness
      • his public pronouncements had a certain dopiness about them

Rhymes

Hopi, Opie, ropy, soapy, topi
 
 

Definition of dopey in US English:

dopey

(also dopy)
adjectiveˈdoʊpiˈdōpē
informal
  • 1Stupefied by sleep or a drug.

    she was under sedation and a bit dopey
    Example sentencesExamples
    • This means I'm dopey (more than usual), grumpy and disorganised.
    • A regime of painkilling drugs was prescribed to make her as comfortable as possible, and my only concern with this was that it made her very dopey, and not her usual bright and alert self.
    • All I had to do now was sleep for a while… and get rid of this dopey, woozy feeling so I could run.
    • With any luck I'll be out like a light (I'm feeling pretty dopey already after a hard weekend of traveling and drinking) and sleep through to 7.00 am.
    • Did we learn anything of value about our fellow human beings from the exercise, other than that they get dopey and argumentative when deprived of sleep for up to seven days?
    • A head cold hit me like an anvil last week, and that usually means I'm going to feel too dopey or muddled to write a review.
    • I was feeling sick, and dopey, from the cigarette, from lack of sleep, or from not being able to see the road ahead.
    • As a personal observation, most heavy users have a dopey look about them.
    • I stumbled into work, bleary-eyed and dopey and at the first opportunity purchased a fruit juice smoothie from one of the hundreds of juice bars springing up all over the city.
    • Yeah, okay, that's enough to make anyone dopey.
    Synonyms
    dazed, confused, muddled, befuddled, bewildered, disoriented, disorientated, stupefied, groggy, dizzy
    1. 1.1 Idiotic.
      did you ever hear such dopey names?
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He almost becomes one of the family, cheerfully going out gambling with her dopey, reprobate nephew.
      • I know that's dopey, and certainly not very hip.
      • It's a dopey collector who doesn't get them already.
      • It's such a fiercely unique movie, uncompromising in its visual excitement, that we're inclined to overlook the slightly dopey plot and shaky acting.
      • One former reporter recalls an incident when the senior magistrate of the area was sitting and a particularly dopey defendant was in the dock for a motoring offence.
      • Everybody has a couple of dopey musicals that they are happy to watch over and over while their friends wrinkle their noses and say, ‘You actually like this?’
      • Still, I couldn't help but feel that I sounded dopey.
      • Not only had I failed in my duties, but some other guy - a dopey, shifty guy we both knew - had sent her flowers with a card attached.
      • With its wobbly sets, sensationalist plots, appalling acting, crude camerawork and dopey dialogue it was uncannily reminiscent of bad soaps in general.
      • He's just going to give up the anchor duties after this next election, and then he's going to hang around and do dopey specials, so he is not going to go anywhere.
      • It is not a dopey thing to tell yourself over and over again: I'm a good person, I'm a worthwhile person, I can be successful, I'm good enough to do this.
      • This dress is actually fairly dopey looking.
      • The song is pretty good, until the middle, which has this dopey spoken/sung part that's very clumsy.
      • Puppets can't vote, but these dopey kids who watch you can.
      • ‘I've had it with these dopey little countries,’ he writes.
      • What is not so dopey, however, is the alternative notion that his one-foot-in-front-of-the-other approach is not only strategic, but actually quite shrewd.
      • The dopey scene, in which her lady-in-waiting, Alice, teaches her English, has been powerfully reinterpreted, with Katherine using her newly acquired vocabulary to taunt her guards.
      • So I'm dopey and filled with ego and I'll be damned if I'm going to admit defeat and switch to an off-the-shelf solution.
      • It looks like those dopey movies that we all grew up seeing on late-night TV.
      • It could have been a global energy powerhouse by now if its dopey directors of days gone by hadn't been so blinkered in their outlook when it came to oil and gas opportunities.
      Synonyms
      stupid, foolish, senseless, brainless, mindless, idiotic, imbecilic, imbecile, insane, lunatic, asinine, ridiculous, ludicrous, absurd, preposterous, silly, inane, witless, half-baked, empty-headed, unintelligent, half-witted, slow-witted, weak-minded
 
 
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