sleepless
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- adjective Marked by a lack of sleep: a sleepless night.
- adjective Unable to sleep.
- adjective Always alert or active; never resting: a sleepless district of the city.
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- Then in my arms in our bed one night Olive began to weep, that the boy lay sleepless -- she knew! — Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
- You thought about that as you tossed and rolled-sleepless, dreamless-through the night, but there were so many thoughts playing bumper cars in your brain that you hadn't more than a few seconds to spend with any particular one before it was rear-ended or broadsided by a different thought-that then took its brief turn leading the pack. — Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
- In consequence, Brown's men were soaking wet, ill-fed, sleepless, and short-tempered. — A Breath of Snow and Ashes
- One night â” it was long after I had found out Anna's secret â” I happened to be sleepless, and I overheard Anna talking angrily to Peter. — In Those Days
- Horas took a deep breath. — The Order War
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- from Middle English sleples, from Anglo-Saxon *slǣpleás (in deriv. slǣpleást, sleeplessness) (= Dutch slapeloos = Middle Low German slapelōs = Old High German Middle High German slāflōs, slāfelōs, O. schlaflos); from slǣp, sleep, + -leás, English -less.
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/ (slēpˈlĭs)/
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