wakeful
Use Wakeful in a sentence
fəl adjective
1.
unable to sleep; not sleeping; indisposed to sleep: Excitement made the children wakeful.
2.
characterized by absence of sleep: a wakeful night.
3.
watchful; alert; vigilant: a wakeful foe.
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Wakeful
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
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wakeful (ˈweɪkfʊl) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | unable or unwilling to sleep |
| 2. | sleepless |
| 3. | alert |
| 'wakefully | |
| —adv | |
| 'wakefulness | |
| —n | |
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Example sentences
Dream consciousness is not the same as wakeful consciousness.
Patients close to the end of life may be unable to maintain a wakeful state without high levels of emotional or physical pain.
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