wakeful
adjective /ˈweɪk.fəl/ formalDefinition
› not able to sleep, or used to describe a period of time when you are not able to sleep: We spent a wakeful night worrying about where he was. She lay there wakeful the whole night.Not sleeping and not unconscious wakefulness /-nəs/ noun [U] Not sleeping and not unconscious
(Definition of wakeful adjective from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- awaken verb
- awoke verb
- awoken verb
- be in the land of the living idiom
- come round phrasal verb (BECOME CONSCIOUS)
- conscious adjective (AWAKE)
- consciousness noun (AWAKE)
- knock sb up phrasal verb (WAKE UP)
- rise and shine! idiom
- rise verb (MOVE UP)
- riser noun (PERSON)
- rouse verb
- sit up phrasal verb (STAY AWAKE)
- sleepless adjective
- stir verb (MOVE)
- wait up phrasal verb
- waken verb
- wakey-wakey exclamation
- waking adjective
- waking noun
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