sleepless

/'sli:plis/

Thân thiện

The student felt sleepless before the big exam.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Characterized by or experiencing a lack of sleep: Describes a state of being unable to sleep or not having slept.
   • Always watchful or alert: Describes a state of constant vigilance, often due to worry or duty.

Usage and Examples

• Describing a person or creature:
  • The new parents were sleepless for the first few months.
  • The sleepless guard kept watch over the camp all night.
• Describing a period of time:
  • She spent a sleepless night worrying about the exam results.
  • The city was alive with sleepless energy.

Advanced Usage

• "Sleepless" as a state of constant activity or alertness:
  • He was the sleepless guardian of the family's secrets.
  • The sleepless machinery of the factory hummed through the night.

Variants and Related Words

• Sleeplessly (adverb): In a manner without sleep.
  • He paced sleeplessly until dawn.
• Sleeplessness (noun): The condition of being unable to sleep; insomnia.
  • Chronic sleeplessness can affect your health.

Synonyms

• Insomniac: Relating to or suffering from insomnia.
• Wakeful: Unable to sleep; sleepless.
• Watchful: Alert and vigilant, especially to danger.

Related Phrases and Idioms

• Sleepless night: A night during which one gets little or no sleep.
  • The loud noise from the street gave me a sleepless night.
• Sleepless in [City Name]: A phrase popularized by a film title, humorously describing a state of romantic longing and insomnia in a specific location.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. always watchful
   • to an eye like mine, a lidless watcher of the public weal- Alfred Tennyson
2. experiencing or accompanied by sleeplessness
   • insomniac old people
   • insomniac nights
   • lay sleepless all night
   • twenty watchful, weary, tedious nights- Shakespeare

Từ đồng nghĩa

• lidless
• insomniac
• watchful