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sleepless
[ sleep-lis ]
adjective
- without sleep:
a sleepless night.
- watchful; alert:
sleepless devotion to duty.
- always active:
the sleepless ocean.
sleepless
/ ˈsliːplɪs /
adjective
- without sleep or rest
a sleepless journey
- unable to sleep
- always watchful or alert
- 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
- sleepless·ly adverb
- sleepless·ness noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of sleepless1
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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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