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wide-awake
[ wahyd-uh-weyk ]
adjective
- fully awake; with the eyes wide open.
Synonyms: unsleeping, astir, wakeful, open-eyed, awake
Antonyms: restful, sleeping, asleep, somnolent, lethargic, drowsy, sleepy
- alert, keen, or knowing:
a wide-awake young woman.
noun
- Also called wide-awake hat. a soft, low-crowned felt hat.
- the sooty tern.
wide-awake
adjective
- fully awake
- keen, alert, or observant
noun
- Also calledwide-awake hat a hat with a low crown and very wide brim
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Derived Forms
- ˈwide-aˈwakeness, noun
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Other Words From
- wide-a·wakeness noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of wide-awake1
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Idioms and Phrases
Fully awake; also, very alert. For example, He lay there, wide awake, unable to sleep , or She was wide awake to all the possibilities . The wide in this idiom alludes to the eyes being wide open. [Early 1800s]Discover More
Example Sentences
“I woke up at, like, six in the morning, wide awake,” Sclove remembered.
With a prayer that he may be on his feet and wide awake at the first sound of the horn, he sinks to his slumbers nightly.
Then she extinguished her candles and sat wide awake through the night, watching over her family in the dark.
We all have our wide-awake-at-3-in-the-morning nights, and no doubt Mrs. Romney has endured her share.
Wide Awake serves both as a memoir and a comprehensive study of the culture surrounding sleep.
She lay wide awake composing a letter which was nothing like the one which she wrote next day.
In a moment Skipper Worse was wide awake, and began to hum, as she moved her fingers along the lines.
When Fanny visited his room she found him wide awake, sitting up in bed with bright, feverish eyes, and crying to himself.
It is characteristic of Scattergood that, though wide awake, he gave no sign of knowledge of Mandy's act.
The gambling instinct was wide awake in Bud's nature—and as for Cash, he would hunt gold as long as he could carry pick and pan.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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