sleepless

Examples

• All

• "Miss Murdstone's sleepless eyes, like two red suns."

  The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019)

• Throughout the night, the sleepless guard remained alert, ensuring that no danger went unnoticed.

• I have spent many a sleepless night wide awake with my concern for the children in the schools of America, both public and private.

  Academic text (1990)

• You'll have a sleepless guardian who never has to leave your side.

  Fiction book (1992)

• Our supreme function is to be sleepless sentinels on the ramparts of human liberty and to sound the alarm whenever an enemy appears.

  Academic text (1993)

• The sleepless sentinels stood watch over the city, vigilant against any threats that might come their way.

• With her sleepless eyes fixed on the horizon, she waited patiently for the first sign of dawn.

Synonyms

W

wakeful

vssleepless

1 5.3

Being alert and watching for danger

is a literary constant vigilance rather than cautious alertness

L

lidless

vssleepless

• Literature

1 9.5

Always watching without closing the eyes

is broader vigilance rather than literal unblinking watching

U

unsleeping

vssleepless

1 7.8

Always awake and watching

is a literary sense of constant vigilance, not just being physically awake

How Alert

sleepless

• Literature

1 7.8

vigilant

66 6.0

watchful

37 3.2

alert

82 2.8

attentive

61 3.0

aware

∞ 2.7

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology