wide awake
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2.7
- adjective
- /waɪd əˈweɪk/
:
despierto
- You seem wide awake and eager to begin your chores.
- wide awake now
- suddenly wide awake
- still wide awake
And they're lying in bed and they are wide awake and they cannot fall asleep.
- And they're lying in bed and they are wide awake and they cannot fall asleep.
- She's always wide awake on her phone.
- I'm here to tell you that when you're wide awake, you also need your dreams.
- The American people are now wide awake, hate all this, but without any of our institutions of power, it's kind of like, look, more corruption.
Examples
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You look wide awake.
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After that cup of coffee, I felt wide awake and ready to tackle the day.
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And I was wide awake the whole time, I promise.
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I was wide awake, I know what I heard.
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He'll be wide awake for this, right?
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But I thought, well, I'm wide awake, so...
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The next morning, I woke up early, not rested, but too wide awake to stay in bed.
Fiction book (1990) -
Everyone was wide awake by the time we turned off the highway into Spottsville.
Fiction book (1990) -
I'm feeling wide awake, but I don't know why.
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He'd slept on the plane, thank God, and was wide awake and alert.
Fiction book (1991)
Synonyms
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1.0
Not sleeping and able to think clearly
1
9.0
Awake and alert after sleep
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4.6
Not asleep or sleeping deeply and easily disturbed by sounds
1
2.5
Not feeling sleepy and able to think clearly
Antonyms
How Awake
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'fully alert' is directly derivable from combining 'wide' (to a large extent) with 'awake' (not sleeping) — together they yield an intensified state of being awake. This adverb+adjective intensifying pattern is common in English (and paralleled in other languages), so a B1 learner who knows both words would readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
The phrase wide awake probably comes from a simple picture: someone with their eyes open very wide because they are fully awake. So it now means 'fully alert and not at all sleepy'.