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- [sleep-lis]
- /ˈslip lɪs/
- /ˈsliːp.ləs/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [sleep-lis]
- /ˈslip lɪs/
Definitions of sleepless word
- adjective sleepless without sleep: a sleepless night. 1
- adjective sleepless watchful; alert: sleepless devotion to duty. 1
- adjective sleepless always active: the sleepless ocean. 1
- adjective sleepless A sleepless night is one during which you do not sleep. 0
- adjective sleepless Someone who is sleepless is unable to sleep. 0
- adjective sleepless without sleep or rest 0
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Origin of sleepless
First appearance:
before 1375 One of the 22% oldest English words
late Middle English word dating back to 1375-1425; See origin at sleep, -less
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Parts of speech for Sleepless
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
sleepless popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 75% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
sleepless usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for sleepless
adj sleepless
- bundle of nerves — a very nervous person
- insomniac — a person who suffers from insomnia, the inability, especially when chronic, to obtain sufficient sleep, through difficulty in falling or staying asleep: Her husband, an insomniac, had at last fallen asleep at the computer, head resting on the keyboard.
noun sleepless
- insomnia — inability to obtain sufficient sleep, especially when chronic; difficulty in falling or staying asleep; sleeplessness.
- insomnolence — sleeplessness; insomnia: a troubled week of insomnolence.
- fretfulness — The quality of being fretful.
- nerves — one or more bundles of fibers forming part of a system that conveys impulses of sensation, motion, etc., between the brain or spinal cord and other parts of the body.
- neurasthenia — Psychiatry. (not in technical use) nervous debility and exhaustion occurring in the absence of objective causes or lesions; nervous exhaustion.
adjective sleepless
- conscious — If you are conscious of something, you notice it or realize that it is happening.
- fidgeting — to move about restlessly, nervously, or impatiently.
- insomnious — (archaic) restless; sleepless.
- wakeful — unable to sleep; not sleeping; indisposed to sleep: Excitement made the children wakeful.
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