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sleepless Definition

sleep·less (slēp′lis)

adjective

  1. unable to sleep; wakeful; restless
  2. marked by absence of sleep a sleepless night
  3. constantly moving, active, or alert

sleepless Related Forms
sleep′·lessly adverb sleep′·less·ness noun
sleepless Synonyms

sleepless

modif.

wakeful, insomnious, insomniac; see restless 1.

sleepless Usage Examples

Modifying Another Word

  • somewhat: After a somewhat sleepless night in a small hotel, my introduction to Antigua began.

Modifies a noun

  • night: On sleepless nights he made up weather rhymes Which others spoilt.
  • dream: Great stuff. comment by sleepless dream at 08:13 AM 16 August, 2006 beautiful, elegant, expressive, immaculate!
  • hour: They must have spent many sleepless hours formulating their answers to the Last Question - " Burn or jump - what will you do?
  • eye: Weary sleepless eyes squeezing tight miss clouds bathed in silvery light beams.
  • baby: Looking For A Babysitter who can cope with a sleepless baby?
  • one: How shall we let him who was in charge by night go astray among our sleepless ones?

Used with adjective complement

  • lie: Night after night I lay sleepless in my bed crying to God to have mercy upon me.
sleepless Quotes

O Sleepless as the river under thee, Vaulting the sea, the prairies'dreaming sod, Unto us lowliest sometime sweep, descend And of the curveship lend a myth to God.

—Crane, (Harold) Hart

   Sleepless with cold commemorative eyes.

—Rossetti, Dante Gabriel