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View synonyms for sleepless

sleepless

[ sleep-lis ]

adjective

  1. without sleep:

    a sleepless night.

  2. watchful; alert:

    sleepless devotion to duty.

  3. always active:

    the sleepless ocean.



sleepless

/ ˈsliːplɪs /

adjective

  1. without sleep or rest

    a sleepless journey

  2. unable to sleep
  3. always watchful or alert
  4. poetic.
    always active or moving

    the sleepless tides



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Derived Forms

  • ˈsleeplessly, adverb
  • ˈsleeplessness, noun

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Other Words From

  • sleepless·ly adverb
  • sleepless·ness noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of sleepless1

late Middle English word dating back to 1375–1425; sleep, -less

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Example Sentences

It was a sleepless night in Chechnya for two lawyers from the Russian town of Orenburg, Sergei Babinets and Dmitriy Dimitriyev.

Mama, I understand your many sleepless nights / When you sit and think about father / Or how you tried to be the perfect wife.

I blame a sleepless night or free drinks at a cocktail party.

And behind the sleepless Moms will come binders full of freshly scrubbed lawyers looking to turn a buck on the news.

Now we are learning that it is not just sleepless nights looking after Prince George that may have unsettled his mood.

She moved slightly, like a dreamer in pain, as again she faced the creed she had hated through many a sleepless night.

So excited was he at the thought of the great honour that was to be his that he spent almost a sleepless night.

There were no more sleepless nights, fearing an attack from the dreaded rebel or the volunteer.

The story was brought to a proper and blissful conclusion; still Sue was sleepless.

They spent sleepless nights, and it was especially at such times that they would sing hymns.

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