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Adjective sleeping has 1 sense
- dormant, sleeping - lying with head on paws as if sleeping
Antonyms: erect, vertical, upright (indirect, via unerect)
Noun sleeping has 3 senses
- sleeping - the state of being asleep
--1 is a kind of sleep, slumber
--1 has parts: dream, dreaming
Antonyms: waking
- quiescence, quiescency, dormancy, sleeping - quiet and inactive restfulness
--2 is a kind of rest, ease, repose, relaxation
--2 has particulars: vegetation
- sleeping - the suspension of consciousness and decrease in metabolic rate
--3 is a kind of bodily process, body process, bodily function, activity
--3 has particulars: | sleepwalking, somnambulism, somnambulation, noctambulism, noctambulation; sleep talking, somniloquy, somniloquism; nap, catnap, cat sleep, forty winks, short sleep, snooze; doze, drowse |
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