sleepless | ||
1. | [ adjective ] experiencing or accompanied by sleeplessness | |
Synonyms: | watchful insomniac | |
Examples: | "insomniac old people" "insomniac nights" "lay sleepless all night" "twenty watchful, weary, tedious nights"- Shakespeare |
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Related terms: | awake | |
2. | [ adjective ] without having the eyes closed or covered by the eyelids | |
Synonyms: | lidless | |
Examples: | "to an eye like mine, a lidless watcher of the public weal"- Alfred Tennyson |
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Related terms: | alert | |
Similar spelling: |
sleeplessly sleeveless slaveless sleepwalker sleepwalk sleep_late |