insomniac
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7.5
- adjective
- /ɪnˈsɑmniˌæk/
:
insomne
- After a week of sleepless nights, she realized her insomniac tendencies were affecting her health.
Examples
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I do see a shrink... and I'm insomniac, so you're in the ballpark.
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It should make for many more insomniac nights when you think of all the terrible things that could happen when you are responsible for children, your own, but more so your nieces.
Blog text (19) -
His troubled, insomniac state means that his waking is permeated by the stuff of his dreams.
Academic text (2001) -
One night after teaching, she'd walked eighty-three blocks up insomniac Broadway and realized that for nine years she'd lost track of her city self.
Fiction book (1998) -
The music that follows draws on everything from world music rhythms to shoegaze explorations and insomniac sounds.
Blog text (25) -
I think of all the things he might have said, the true profanity of his condition, and it seems to me that no words could ever be as shocking as "Phil," "Donahue," and "Show," words that have brought America into this hospital room, the dream of an essential empowerment so at odds with the insomniac knowledge of our own helplessness, our midnight desperation over coffee and cigarettes.
Fiction book (1993) -
Many students become insomniac during exam week, struggling to find sleep amidst the stress.
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The insomniac man could only find solace in the quiet of the early morning hours.
Synonyms
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3.1
Not able to sleep during the night
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7.5
Being awake at night and not able to sleep
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7.4
You feel very tired after staying awake all night
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7.8
Always awake and watching
Antonyms
How Sleepless
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3.1
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Insomniac comes from Latin parts in- 'not' and somnus 'sleep', the same root as insomnia. So used as an adjective, insomniac describes nights, hours, or people that are 'unable to sleep'.