Meaning of SLEEPLESS
Pronunciation: | | 'sleeplis
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- [adj] without having the eyes closed or covered by the eyelids; "to an eye like mine, a lidless watcher of the public weal"- Alfred Tennyson
- [adj] experiencing or accompanied by sleeplessness; "insomniac old people"; "insomniac nights"; "lay sleepless all night"; "twenty watchful, weary, tedious nights"- Shakespeare
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| Synonyms: | | alert, awake(p), insomniac, lidless, watchful |
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| Definition: | | \Sleep"less\, a.
1. Having no sleep; wakeful.
2. Having no rest; perpetually agitated. ``Biscay's sleepless
bay.'' --Byron. -- {Sleep"less*ly}, adv. --
{Sleep"less*ness}, n.
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