nod off
verb
nodded off; nodding off; nods off
intransitive verb
: to fall asleep
Word History
First Known Use
1914, in the meaning defined above
nodded off
verb
as in dropped off
Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- dropped off
- slept in
- drowsed (off)
- slept
- dozed
- napped
- rested
- catnapped
- slumbered
- snoozed
- overslept
- dreamed
- hibernated
- dreamt
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- rose
- arose
- woke
- awoke
- aroused
- waked
- awaked
- clinkety-clanks
- clinkety-clink
- clinking
- clinks
- clinkstone
- clinkstones
- clinkum clankum
- clino-
- clinoaxes
- clinoaxis
- clinocephalies
- clinocephalisms
- clinocephalyes
- clinocephalys
- clinochlore
- clinochlorite
- clinoclase
- clinoclasite
- clinodactylies
- clinodactylyes
- clinodactylys
- clinodiagonal
- clinodiagonals
- clinodomatic
- clinodome