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cernuous, drooping, pendulous

adj. having branches or flower heads that bend downward; "nodding daffodils"; "the pendulous branches of a weeping willow"; "lilacs with drooping panicles of fragrant flowers"

drowsy, drowsing, dozing, napping

adj. half asleep; "made drowsy by the long ride"; "it seemed a pity to disturb the drowsing (or dozing) professor"; "a tired dozy child"; "the nodding (or napping) grandmother in her rocking chair"

reclining, accumbent, decumbent, recumbent, lying down

adj. lying down; in a position of comfort or rest

bent, bowed, inclined

adj. used especially of the head or upper back; "a bent head and sloping shoulders"

couchant

adj. lying on the stomach with head raised with legs pointed forward

huddled, crouched, crouching, hunkered, hunkered down

adj. squatting close to the ground; "poorly clothed men huddled low against the wind"; "he stayed in the ditch hunkered down"

sleeping, dormant

adj. lying with head on paws as if sleeping

flat, prostrate

adj. stretched out and lying at full length along the ground; "found himself lying flat on the floor"

hunched, round-backed, round-shouldered, stooped, stooping, crooked

adj. having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect; "a little oldish misshapen stooping woman"

kneeling

adj. (unerect)

leaning

adj. departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal; "the leaning tower of Pisa"; "the headstones were tilted"

lolling, lounging

adj. lying in a relaxed manner

prostrate, prone

adj. lying face downward

slouched, slouching, slumped

adj. with shoulders drooping

supine, resupine

adj. lying face upward

sleeping, at rest, slumbering

adj. lying with head on paws as if sleeping

dormant, torpid, hibernating

adj. in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation; "dormant buds"; "a hibernating bear"; "torpid frogs"

sleepy, sleepy-eyed, sleepyheaded

adj. ready to fall asleep; "beginning to feel sleepy"; "a sleepy-eyed child with drooping eyelids"; "sleepyheaded students"

slumberous, slumbery, slumbrous, somnolent

adj. inclined to or marked by drowsiness; "slumberous (or slumbrous) eyes"; "`slumbery' is archaic"; "the sound had a somnolent effect"

unawakened

adj. still asleep

unconscious

adj. (asleep)

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