nodding (adj.)
- absent
- absentminded
- absorbed
- abstracted
- asleep
- bagging
- baggy
- bemused
- casual
- cataleptic
- comatose
- distant
- doped
- dozy
- dreamy
- drooping
- droopy
- drowsing
- drowsy
- drugged
- ecstatic
- engrossed
- faraway
- floppy
- heavy
- incautious
- incomplete
- languid
- lethargic
- limp
- loose
- lop-eared
- loppy
- lost
- meditative
- musing
- napping
- narcoleptic
- narcotized
- oblivious
- off-guard
- oscitant
- pensive
- preoccupied
- rapt
- sagging
- sleeping
- sleepy
- slight
- slumberous
- slumbery
- somnolent
- soporific
- stretchy
- stuporous
- superficial
- unalert
- unconscious
- unguarded
- unprepared
- unready
- unvigilant
- unwary
- unwatchful
- woolgathering
- yawning
The nodding horror of whose shady brows
Threats the forlorn and wandering passenger.
I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.
