Rupert Graves

I was a dozy boy; I'd like to have been like James Dean, but I was more Arthur Askey - pathetically rebellious in a cheeky, chappy sort of way.

English Actor

Use 'dozy' for mild sleepiness, less strong than 'exhausted'.

Tiredness Level

'Dozy' is informal, suitable for casual conversations, not formal writing.

Informal Usage

'Dozy' implies being half-asleep or on the verge of sleeping.

Not Fully Asleep

Use 'dozy' to suggest a lack of mental sharpness or focus.

Mental Sharpness

Like its other uses, this sense of 'dozy' is informal and conversational.

Informal Setting

'Dozy' can suggest incompetence when referring to attentiveness.

Negative Connotation

 everything because it's filmed with the infrared cameras but actually for us it's pitch black you're sat in a vehicle you may have been having your sleep or rest time or you're quite dozy because you've been up all night for four or five weeks and then all of a sudden there's lions roaring right next to you within maybe three

Filming Lions Hunting...

 he was upwind what's a little bit much and so we've decided now it's going to investigate what these Franklin's were squeaking about maybe we'll find a very dozy juke somewhere around here that's what I'm hoping for I'm hoping he's walking around and if nothing here then

Dozy

Tiredness Level

Informal Usage

Not Fully Asleep

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