sleepy vs tired

sleepy

adj
  • Tired; feeling the need for sleep. 

  • Quiet; without bustle or activity. 

  • Tending to induce sleep. 

  • Suggesting tiredness. 

  • Dull; lazy. 

noun
  • The gum that builds up in the eye; sleep, gound. 

tired

adj
  • In need of some rest or sleep. 

  • ineffectual; incompetent 

  • Fed up, annoyed, irritated, sick of. 

  • Overused, cliché. 

How often have the words sleepy and tired occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )