half-waking

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English

Adjective

half-waking (not comparable)

  1. In a state of not being fully awake.
    • 1834, L E L, chapter X, in Francesca Carrara. , volume I, London: Richard Bentley, , (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 111:
      Francesca gazed round, as we gaze in some half-waking dream, of whose illusion we seem aware, and yet partake.