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wakeful

[ weyk-fuhl ]

adjective

  1. unable to sleep; not sleeping; indisposed to sleep:

    Excitement made the children wakeful.

    Synonyms: restless, insomniac, awake, sleepless

    Antonyms: sleeping, asleep

  2. characterized by absence of sleep:

    a wakeful night.

    Antonyms: sleepful

  3. watchful; alert; vigilant:

    a wakeful foe.

    Synonyms: observant, wary



wakeful

/ ˈweɪkfʊl /

adjective

  1. unable or unwilling to sleep
  2. sleepless
  3. alert
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈwakefully, adverb
  • ˈwakefulness, noun
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Other Words From

  • wakeful·ly adverb
  • wakeful·ness noun
  • un·wakeful adjective
  • un·wakeful·ly adverb
  • un·wakeful·ness noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of wakeful1

First recorded in 1540–50; wake 1 + -ful
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Example Sentences

Still, midnight drives with a wakeful infant aren’t quite the same test he faces in his latest TV role.

More wakeful than he’d been, he realized that winter had become less cold, and he bestirred himself to be up and around.

Identifying processes in the brain that underlie sleep-deprived boosting of mood could lead to therapies that are less burdensome than enduring a wakeful night.

There was something else, something inherently evil had drifted into my wakeful consciousness, a bad dream of some kind—a warning, perhaps.

If I was this fatigued from one night’s loss of sleep, how did Charlie and the other soldiers feel, wakeful night after night after night?

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