Hypertext Webster Gateway: "sleepless"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Sleepless \Sleep"less\, a.
1. Having no sleep; wakeful.
2. Having no rest; perpetually agitated. ``Biscay's sleepless
bay.'' --Byron. -- {Sleep"less*ly}, adv. --
{Sleep"less*ness}, n.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
sleepless
adj 1: experiencing or accompanied by sleeplessness; "insomniac old
people"; "insomniac nights"; "lay sleepless all
night"; "twenty watchful, weary, tedious nights"-
Shakespeare [syn: {insomniac}, {watchful}]
2: without having the eyes closed or covered by the eyelids;
"to an eye like mine, a lidless watcher of the public
weal"- Alfred Tennyson [syn: {lidless}]
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