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wide-awake |
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wide-awake adj (wide awake when postpositive) 1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Physiology) fully awake 2. keen, alert, or observant n
(Clothing & Fashion) Also called wide-awake hat a hat with a low crown and very wide brim wide-awakeness n ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
wide-awake adjective 1. conscious, fully awake, roused, wakened I could not relax and was still wide awake after midnight. 2. alert, vigilant, on the ball (informal), aware, keen, wary, watchful, observant, on the alert, on your toes, on the qui vive, heedful You need to stay alert and wide awake to avoid accidents as you drive. alert distracted, unaware, preoccupied, oblivious, negligent, dreamy, heedless, inattentive, unobservant Translations wide-awake [ˈwaɪdəˈweɪk] ADJ 1. (lit) → completamente or bien despierto 2. (fig) (= on the ball) → despabilado; (= alert) → vigilante, alerta wide-awake [ˌwaɪdəˈweɪk] adj → completamente sveglio/a (fig) → sveglio/a wide-awake [ˌwaɪdəˈweɪk] adj → completamente sveglio/a (fig) → sveglio/a How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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I at once spurred alongside Raffles, as he rode, bronzed and bearded, with warworn wide-awake over eyes grown keen as a hawk's, and a cutty-pipe sticking straight out from his front teeth. After I had fallen over eight or nine precipices and thus found out that one half of my brain had been asleep eight or nine times without the wide-awake, hard-working other half suspecting it, the periodical unconsciousnesses began to extend their spell gradually over more of my brain-territory, and at last I sank into a drowse which grew deeper and deeper and was doubtless just on the very point of being a solid, blessed dreamless stupor, when--what was that? Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised. |
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