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wakeful

[ weyk-fuhl ]

adjective

  1. unable to sleep; not sleeping; indisposed to sleep:

    Excitement made the children wakeful.

    Synonyms: , , ,

    Antonyms: ,

  2. characterized by absence of sleep:

    a wakeful night.

    Antonyms:

  3. watchful; alert; vigilant:

    a wakeful foe.

    Synonyms: ,



wakeful

/ ˈɱɪʊ /

adjective

  1. unable or unwilling to sleep
  2. sleepless
  3. alert
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈɲڳܱ, adverb
  • ˈɲڳܱԱ, noun
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Other Word Forms

  • ɲfܱ· adverb
  • ɲfܱ·Ա noun
  • ܲ·ɲfܱ adjective
  • un·ɲfܱ· adverb
  • un·ɲfܱ·Ա noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of wakeful1

First recorded in 1540–50; wake 1 + -ful
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Example Sentences

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Blocking these receptors leads to a more wakeful state that can increase focus, said Dr. Oliver Grundmann, who studies how plants affect the brain at the University of Florida.

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Still, midnight drives with a wakeful infant aren’t quite the same test he faces in his latest TV role.

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More wakeful than he’d been, he realized that winter had become less cold, and he bestirred himself to be up and around.

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Identifying processes in the brain that underlie sleep-deprived boosting of mood could lead to therapies that are less burdensome than enduring a wakeful night.

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There was something else, something inherently evil had drifted into my wakeful consciousness, a bad dream of some kind—a warning, perhaps.

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