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sleepless

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sleep·less  (slpls)
adj.
1.
a. Marked by a lack of sleep: a sleepless night.
b. Unable to sleep.
2. Always alert or active; never resting: a sleepless district of the city.

sleepless·ly adv.
sleepless·ness n.

sleepless [ˈsliːplɪs]
adj
1. without sleep or rest a sleepless journey
2. unable to sleep
3. always watchful or alert
4. Chiefly poetic always active or moving the sleepless tides
sleeplessly  adv
sleeplessness  n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.sleepless - experiencing or accompanied by sleeplessness; "insomniac old people"; "insomniac nights"; "lay sleepless all night"; "twenty watchful, weary, tedious nights"- Shakespeare
awake - not in a state of sleep; completely conscious; "lay awake thinking about his new job"; "still not fully awake"
2.sleepless - always watchful; "to an eye like mine, a lidless watcher of the public weal"- Alfred Tennyson
alert, watchful - engaged in or accustomed to close observation; "caught by a couple of alert cops"; "alert enough to spot the opportunity when it came"; "constantly alert and vigilant, like a sentinel on duty"

sleepless
adjective
1. wakeful, disturbed, restless, insomniac, unsleeping I have sleepless nights worrying about her.
2. (Chiefly poetic) alert, vigilant, watchful, wide awake, unsleeping his sleepless vigilance
Translations
sleepless [ˈsliːplɪs] ADJ [person] → insomne
many sleepless nightsmuchas noches en blanco or sin dormir
to have a sleepless nightpasar la noche en blanco or sin dormir
sleepless [ˈsliːpləs] adj
a sleepless night → une nuit blanche
sleepless
adjschlaflos
sleepless [ˈsliːplɪs] adj (person) → insonne; (night) → in bianco, insonne
sleepless [ˈsliːplɪs] adj (person) → insonne; (night) → in bianco, insonne


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Lonely and sleepless I think of my thankless Master, and vainly would Cradle my sorrow.
Thou hast been where bell or diver never went; hast slept by many a sailor's side, where sleepless mothers would give their lives to lay them down.
"To find the sleepless princess," I added, thinking at the same time one of those irrelevant asides that will go through the brain of thirty, that the woman who would get her share of kisses nowadays must neither slumber nor sleep.
 
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