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sleepless - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'sleepless' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Sleepless [ a.]
- Having no sleep; wakeful.
- Having no rest; perpetually agitated.

Meaning of 'sleepless' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . sleepless [ s]
Meaning (1):
- experiencing or accompanied by sleeplessness
Example in sentence:
  • insomniac nights;
  • insomniac old people;
  • lay sleepless all night;
  • twenty watchful, weary, tedious nights
Meaning (2):
- always watchful
Example in sentence:
  • to an eye like mine, a lidless watcher of the public weal

Nearby Words:

sle sleave sleaved sleaving sleaziness sleazy sled sledded sledding sledge

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