-adj. 2. asleep, sound asleep, Med. soporose, soporous; resting, reposing, slumbering, dozing, drowsing, Inf. snoozing, somnolent; napping, catnapping; oversleeping, late-sleeping.
3. dormant, inactive, passive, idle, quiescent, quiet, calm, becalmed; hibernating, estivating, vegetating.
4. inattentive, heedless, unmindful; unobservant, unwatchful, unaware; wandering, daydreaming, musing, staring into space; off guard, off on cloud nine, with one's head in the clouds, a million miles away.
sleeplessness, n. wakefulness, restlessness, insomnia, insomnolence; vigil, vigilance, vigilantness, alertness, watchfulness.
sleepwalking, n. 1. somnambulism, somnambula-tion. -adj. 2. somnambulant, somnambulistic,
sleepy, adj. 1. drowsy, tired, dozy, half asleep, nodding, slumberous, slumbery, somnolent, oscitant; weary, faint, fatigued, exhausted, SI. beat, SI. pooped.
2. languid, languorous, lazy; sluggish, torpid, lethargic, comatose.
3. quiet, inactive, passive, idle, still; dormant, sleeping, asleep, latent, hibernating, estivating, (of land) fallow.
4. soporific, somniferous, somnific, somnifacient, sleep-inducing; narcotic, sedative, opiate; hypnotic, mesmeric.
sleigh, n. See - sled.
sleight, n. 1. skill, proficiency, efficiency, facility, knack; deftness, adeptness, handiness, readiness, adroitness; cleverness, ingeniousness, wit, inventiveness, artistry.
2. artifice, stratagem, intrigue, maneuver, gambit, ploy, expedient; trick, hoax, ruse, wile, scheme, device, SI. gimmick; underhandedness, surreptitiousness, deception, hocus-pocus.
3. cunning, guile, craft, slyness, sneakiness, furtiveness, shiftiness, insidiousness; artfulness, subtlety, shrewdness, sharpness, foxiness.
sleight of
hand, n. legerdemain, prestidigitation, conjuration, hocus-pocus; magic, thaumaturgy, jugglery, trickery, feint, manipulation; shell game, thimblerig, thimblerigging, cardsharping, dealing from the bottom of the deck, stacking the deck; pulling rabbits out of hats or silver dollars out of thin air; trompel'oeil.
slender, adj. 1. slim, thin, thin as a rail, reedy, stalky, twiggy, like a pipestem, narrow, narrow as an arrow; spare, lanky, lean; slight, wispy.
2. gracile, willowy, svelte, lissome, lithe, sylphic, sylphlike; wasp-waisted, with an hourglass figure, snake-hipped.
3. meager, exiguous, scant. See - slim (def. 3).
4. unconvincing, flimsy; unpromising, inauspicious; limited, restricted; uncertain, unfounded, lightweight.
5. (of sound) weak, faint, feeble, pallid; fragile, frail, delicate, fine, attenuated, airy, light, ethereal.
slice, n. 1. slab, wedge, hunk, chunk, cut, piece, Brit. Dial, collop, (of bacon) rasher; layer, shaving, paring, sliver.
2. part, portion, share, allotment, proportion, segment; division, section, fraction, fragment.
-v. 3. cut through, split, skive, sever, part, separate; cleave, knife, carve; split up, divide, segment; pare, peel, whittle,
slick, adj. 1. glossy, sleek, shiny, lustrous, shining, satiny, silken; smooth, smooth as glass, glazed, lacquered; bare, smooth as a billiard ball or baby's bottom.
2. suave, urbane, SI. with it, sophisticated, worldly,