unrefreshed
- adjective
- /ˌʌn.rɪˈfrɛʃt/
- He noticed he was unrefreshed after several nights of poor sleep.
- wake feeling unrefreshed
- feel unrefreshed
Examples
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Waking unrefreshed, with poor daytime concentration and excessive daytime somnolence; apnoeas are terminated by a choking sensation leading to brain arousal and reawakening of the respiratory drive.
Academic text (2011) -
Despite sleeping for eight hours, she felt unrefreshed in the morning.
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There's some technical stuff about how long the unrefreshed cache shows up after the last hit on a screen.
Blog text (30) -
A drugged sleep from which he would emerge only to be dragged down again, so that feeling himself pulled hither and thither by sleep and wakefulness, he rose quite unrefreshed.
Fiction book (1996) -
She had arrived late for their date in a café on Ben-Yehuda Street, unrefreshed, after an exhaustingly long shift in the hospital.
Fiction book (1993) -
Most people are familiar with some of the symptoms of sleep apnea: daytime fatigue or tiredness, morning headaches, restlessness during the night, and just an overall sense of waking up feeling unrefreshed.
Blog text (23) -
After staying up late to study, I woke up feeling unrefreshed and tired.
Synonyms
Needing rest or sleep because you have little energy
Feeling very tired and having no energy
Too sleepy to relax or fall asleep
Not having had enough sleep or time to relax
Not feeling rested or refreshed after sleep
Feeling tired and weak
A person who is very tired and needs rest after hard work
Very tired after a lot of activity or a long day
Antonyms
How Refreshed
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Unrefreshed begins with un- meaning 'not' and the rest is refresh, which means 'make fresh again'. So unrefreshed means 'not made fresh', or simply still tired and not restored after sleep or a break.