Wakeful
['weɪkfʊl;-f(ə)l] or ['wekfl]
Definition
(a.) Not sleeping; indisposed to sleep; watchful; vigilant.
Typist: Manfred
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Sleepless, indisposed to sleep.[2]. Watchful, vigilant, observant, wary.
Editor: Warren
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Watchful, sleepless,[See TRIUMPHANT]
Edited by Hilda
Examples
- It would not be worth mentioning for its own sake, but I was wakeful and rather low-spirited. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Raffles was worse, would take hardly any food, was persistently wakeful and restlessly raving; but still not violent. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I am wakeful: my mind is remarkably lucid. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I have not been near my bed--I have not once closed my weary wakeful eyes. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Lily sat quiet, leaning to the fire: the clatter of cups behind her soothed her as familiar noises hush a child whom silence has kept wakeful. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- I am quite wakeful now. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Turning his head, Wegg beheld his persecutor, the ever-wakeful dustman, accoutred with fantail hat and velveteen smalls complete. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I am horribly wakeful. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
Edited by Hilda