sleepless

[Sleep·less]

If something is sleepless, it's wakeful or restless, like a sleepless night spent in an unfamiliar house listening to spooky noises.

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Having no sleep; wakeful.

Adjective S.
without having the eyes closed or covered by the eyelids; "to an eye like mine, a lidless watcher of the public weal"- Alfred Tennyson

Adjective S.
experiencing or accompanied by sleeplessness; "insomniac old people"; "insomniac nights"; "lay sleepless all night"; "twenty watchful, weary, tedious nights"- Shakespeare


a.
Having no sleep; wakeful.

a.
Having no rest; perpetually agitated.


Sleepless

Sleep"less, a. 1. Having no sleep; wakeful. 2. Having no rest; perpetually agitated. "Biscay's sleepless bay." Byron. -- Sleep"less*ly, adv. -- Sleep"less*ness, n.

Having no sleep; wakeful.

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Usage Examples

I shall give you hunger, and pain, and sleepless nights. Also beauty, and satisfactions known to few, and glimpses of the heavenly life. None of these you shall have continually, and of their coming and going you shall not be foretold.

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Other Usage Examples

I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats.

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