The term drowsy refers to a person who has "drowsiness", that is, one who feels married, listless or downcast. Its use is present in everyday speech among people, so it is rare to find it in literary or much less academic texts.
Drowsy does not mean the same as exhausted, since the former is synonymous with laziness, while one feels exhausted when they have done a job or an activity that consumed a lot of energy to keep going..
The Royal Spanish Academy has several definitions for "drowsiness". He describes it as an adjective that refers to a deep sleepy state in a person, but drowsiness is also said to the fruit that loses color and begins to ferment. This state is also indicated as the verb "drowsiness".
The truth is that the term drowsy is of vulgar use. It can be heard very frequently in popular speech, and to a lesser extent in the media. Where you will surely not find yourself frequently is in the academic field or literary texts.
Drowsiness is also a disease typical of sheep. It occurs in newborns up to the age of one or a year and a half and later than those ages, it is rare..
When grazing in fertile lands abundant in nutritious or aromatic plants, a larva is generated in the brain of the cow that stuns it. A sheep that "sleeps" tends to have its head lowered or does not follow the herd.
But the "drowsiness" was not associated throughout history only to an evil in animals. During the Spanish conquest over a large part of America, a peculiar phenomenon called "plague drowsiness" occurred..
This disease caused a very deep sleep in those who suffered it, so deep that it led them to death because they could not feed or hydrate.
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The word modorro comes from the Basque language and referred to a tree without branches. Hence, it began to be related to "sleeping like a log." Later it was also used in Spanish, becoming "drowsiness" to indicate that a person is sleepy and "drowsiness", which is to make someone sleepy..
In Spanish it is even common to use the word moderation even today, and it is used to indicate that a person is not very awake, that he is stupid..
Some words that mean the same thing as drowsy are, "lazy", "reluctant", "sleepy", "dazed", "lethargic", "transposed", "lethargic", "hampered", "lazy" or "downcast".
The words contrary to drowsy are "lively", "enthusiastic", "energetic", "motivated", "emphatic", "vigorous", "full", "alert" or "lively".
"Every time I wake up in the morning I feel drowsy".
"Today after lunch I felt too sleepy to continue with my work".
"In winter I have a lot of drowsiness to go for a run in the park".
"After a week in the refrigerator the orange began to drowsy and I had to throw it away".
"Both teams did not find a precise game and the match was drowsy".
"During the years of the dictatorship the people seemed drowsy, without energy to transform reality".
"After a hot bath I'm always drowsy".
"What a drowsiness, it's Monday!".
"The other day I met a man who was a complete drowsiness".
"Drowsiness generates in some sheep a decrease in appetite and locomotor problems, among others".
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