ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

sleep, slumber, be asleep; hibernate; oversleep; sleep like a top, sleep like a log, sleep
like a dormouse; sleep soundly, heavily; doze, drowze † , snooze, nap; take a nap &c n.;
dream; snore one's best; settle to sleep, go to sleep, go off to sleep; doze off, drop off; fall
asleep; drop asleep; close the eyes, seal up the eyes, seal up eyelids; weigh down the
eyelids; get sleep, nod, yawn; go to bed, turn; get some z's, stack z's [Coll.].
languish, expend itself, flag, hang fire; relax.
render idle &c adj.; sluggardize † ; mitigate &c 174.
Adj. inactive; motionless &c 265; unoccupied &c (doing nothing) 681; unbusied † .
indolent, lazy, slothful, idle, lusk † , remiss, slack, inert, torpid, sluggish, otiose,
languid, supine, heavy, dull, leaden, lumpish † ; exanimate † , soulless; listless; drony † ,
dronish † ; lazy as Ludlam's dog.
dilatory, laggard; lagging &c v.; slow &c 275; rusty, flagging; lackadaisical, maudlin,
fiddle-faddle; pottering &c v.; shilly-shally &c (irresolute) 605.
sleeping, &c v.; asleep; fast asleep, dead asleep, sound asleep; in a sound sleep; sound
as a top, dormant, comatose; in the arms of Morpheus, in the lap of Morpheus.
sleepy, sleepful † ; dozy † , drowsy, somnolent, torpescent † , lethargic, lethargical † ;
somnifacient † ; statuvolent † , statuvolic † ; heavy, heavy with sleep; napping; somnific † ,
somniferous; soporous † , soporific, soporiferous † ; hypnotic; balmy, dreamy; unawakened,
unawakened.
sedative &c 174.
Adv. inactively &c adj.; at leisure &c 685.
Phr. the eyes begin to draw straws; bankrupt of life yet prodigal of ease [Dryden]; better
50 years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay [Tennyson]; idly busy rolls their world away
[Goldsmith]; the mystery of folded sleep [Tennyson]; the timely dew of sleep [Milton];
thou driftest gently down the tides of sleep [Longfellow]; tired Nature's sweet restorer,
balmy sleep [Young].
684. Haste -- N. haste, urgency; despatch, dispatch; acceleration, spurt, spirt † , forced
march, rush, dash; speed, velocity &c 274; precipitancy, precipitation, precipitousness &c
adj.; impetuosity; brusquerie † ; hurry, drive, scramble, bustle, fuss, fidget, flurry, flutter,
splutter.
V. haste, hasten; make haste, make a dash &c n.; hurry on, dash on, whip on, push on,
press on, press forward; hurry, skurry † , scuttle along, barrel along, bundle on, dart to and
fro, bustle, flutter, scramble; plunge, plunge headlong; dash off; rush &c (violence) 173;
express.
bestir oneself &c (be active) 682; lose no time, lose not a moment, lose not an instant;
make short work of; make the best of one's time, make the best of one's way.
be precipitate &c adj.; jump at, be in haste, be in a hurry &c n.; have no time, have
not a moment to lose, have not a moment to spare; work against time.
quicken &c 274; accelerate, expedite, put on, precipitate, urge, whip; railroad.
Adj. hasty, hurried, brusque; scrambling, cursory, precipitate, headlong, furious,
boisterous, impetuous, hotheaded; feverish, fussy; pushing.
in haste, in a hurry &c n.; in hot haste, in all haste; breathless, pressed for time, hard
pressed, urgent.