sleepless
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3.1
- adjective
- /ˈsliːpləs/
:
desvelado
- Many people experience sleepless nights during stressful times at work.
- sleepless nights
- spend a sleepless night
- many sleepless nights
Tell me about your sleepless night before the gold medal race.
- Tell me about your sleepless night before the gold medal race.
- There were many sleepless nights and there was a lot of fear.
- I will have sleepless nights even if no one knows but me.
- I've had many, many sleepless nights.
- Precisely in this contradiction is the anxiety that can make a person sleepless.
- And that it will 'cause you sleepless nights, you'll be able to influence people on a higher level.
- Like I would rather just grind and sweat and like, you know, have sleepless nights and just be like, what if it was easy?
- I want you to be honest. How many of you lie awake in bed at night, restlessly tossing and turning, sleepless, asking yourself the question,
- This is of course, the last thing I want, unless you spent your sleepless nights binge watching my channel, in which case, please continue.
- In your personal life, you spent endless hours ruminating, thinking, talking, therapying, and having sleepless nights.
- And though you know, the the, you know, through these mistakes and and the stress of trying to continue to grow, I've struggled through sleepless nights.
- I stayed up two nights, sleepless, foodless, and just read through it.
- So Bond had to spend a sleepless night on the steps of Saint Paul's Cathedral.
Examples
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But after the first twenty or thirty sleepless nights, you begin to realize how little you can do.
Fiction book (1996) -
Then, after almost a month of sleepless nights and nightmares, she found a solution.
Fiction book (1996) -
There were many sleepless nights and there was a lot of fear.
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I will have sleepless nights even if no one knows but me.
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And so I had a lot of sleepless nights getting ready to play against his teams.
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Tell me about your sleepless night before the gold medal race.
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At night he would lie in bed beside her, sleepless, beginning to breathe deep and hard.
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And we had two years of pure hell, sleepless nights, anger about why, why, why.
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Others reported that they had sleepless nights because of feelings of homesickness.
Academic text (2012) -
Things had the sharp-edged clarity they sometimes get after a sleepless night, as if glowing with internal light.
Fiction book (1991)
Synonyms
1
7.5
Being awake at night and not able to sleep
1
4.6
Not asleep or sleeping deeply and easily disturbed by sounds
1
7.8
Always awake and watching
Antonyms
How Sleep-Deprived
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word sleepless is made of sleep and the ending -less, where -less means 'without', like in careless or hopeless. So sleepless means 'without sleep', which is why we use it for nights or people who cannot sleep.