asleep

dormido

Que está durmiendo.

En inglés sencillo: Sleeping rather than awake.

• The baby is asleep.
• I fell asleep during the film.
• Were you still asleep when I called?

Cómo se usa: be asleep (The children are asleep.); fall asleep (I fell asleep on the train.)

Sinónimos: sleeping

Antónimos: awake

Expresiones frecuentes: fall asleep, fast asleep, sound asleep

dormido, entumecido

Que ha perdido la sensibilidad normal, a menudo con hormigueo en una parte del cuerpo.

En inglés sencillo: Unable to feel normally, often with an uncomfortable feeling like tiny sharp points in a body part.

• My foot is asleep.
• Her arm fell asleep during the long journey.
• Both legs were asleep when he finally stood up.

Cómo se usa: a body part falls asleep (My foot fell asleep after I sat on it.)

Sinónimos: numb

Expresiones frecuentes: foot is asleep, arm falls asleep, leg is asleep

distraído, desatento

Que no presta atención a lo que está pasando.

En inglés sencillo: Not paying attention to what is happening.

• Were you asleep during that discussion?
• The referee seemed asleep and missed the foul.
• Officials were asleep at the wheel as the crisis grew.

Cómo se usa: be asleep at the wheel (The managers were asleep at the wheel while costs rose.)

Sinónimos: inattentive, unaware

Antónimos: alert, attentive

Expresiones frecuentes: asleep at work, asleep at wheel