unsleeping

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Thân thiện

The unsleeping city glows with lights throughout the night.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Fully awake and alert; not sleeping or drowsy: Describes a state of complete wakefulness, often implying sustained attention or vigilance.
   • Vigilant or watchful: Suggests a state of active, conscious awareness, as if one is purposefully not allowing oneself to sleep.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • The unsleeping guard kept watch over the castle walls all night.
  • Her unsleeping concern for her family's safety kept her mind active.
  • In the unsleeping city, lights and activity continued through the early hours.

Advanced Usage

• Literary/Formal Tone: "Unsleeping" is more common in literary, formal, or descriptive contexts than in everyday conversation. It often conveys a poetic or dramatic sense of eternal vigilance.
  • The unsleeping eye of justice sees all.
• Attributive Use: It is most frequently used directly before a noun.
  • the unsleeping sentinel, unsleeping attention

Variants and Related Words

• Sleepless (adj): More common synonym, often focusing on the inability to sleep rather than purposeful wakefulness. ()
• Wakeful (adj): Describes a state of being awake, especially when one should be sleeping. ()
• Vigilant (adj): Emphasizes watchfulness against danger or trouble. ()
• Alert (adj/adj): Quick to notice and respond; fully awake. ()

Synonyms

• Watchful
• Wakeful
• Vigilant
• Alert
• Sleepless

Antonyms

• Asleep
• Sleeping
• Drowsy
• Unconscious

Related Idioms and Phrases

• To keep an unsleeping watch: To maintain constant, vigilant observation.
  • The lighthouse keeper kept an unsleeping watch over the treacherous coast.
• Unsleeping eye: A metaphor for constant surveillance or awareness.
  • The security cameras were the building's unsleeping eyes.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. fully awake
   • the unsleeping city
   • so excited she was wide-awake all night

Từ đồng nghĩa

• wide-awake