fast asleep en · ADJ
Pronunciation
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Etymology
The original sense of fast in this term is the "firmly gripped or anchored" sense, thus as if stuck fast (embedded firmly) in sleep, but the homonymy with fast as in "quickly" happens to dovetail with the fact that a very tired person will archetypally fall asleep quickly, which tends to color this term with a connotation of falling asleep both quickly and deeply.
Meanings
- (idiomatic, not-comparable) Synonym of sound asleep.
Synonyms
Translations (8)
fi sikiunessa (in a deep sleep) · cmn 熟睡 (in a deep sleep) · ro într-un somn adânc (in a deep sleep) · de in tiefem Schlaf (in a deep sleep) · yo fọnfọn (in a deep sleep) · fi sikeässä unessa (in a deep sleep) · nl als een blok slapen (in a deep sleep) · cmn 沉睡 (in a deep sleep)