Lexic.us

Definition of Sleepless

1. Adjective. Experiencing or accompanied by sleeplessness. "Twenty watchful, weary, tedious nights"

2. Adjective. Always watchful. "To an eye like mine, a lidless watcher of the public weal"

Definition of Sleepless

1. a. Having no sleep; wakeful.

Definition of Sleepless

1. Adjective. Characterized by an absence of sleep. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sleepless

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sleepless

sleeping lions sleeping off sleeping partner sleeping pill sleeping pills sleeping policeman sleeping policemen sleeping room sleeping sickness sleeping tablet

sleeping tablets sleeping together sleepingly sleepings sleepish sleepless (current term) sleepless person sleeplessly sleeplessness sleeplessnesses

sleeplike sleepmarken sleepout sleepouts sleepover sleepovers sleepry sleeps sleeps off sleepswalk

Literary usage of Sleepless

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. History of the Huguenot Emigration to America by Charles Washington Baird (1885)
"For beds, they had hammocks, suspended in the air, according to the South American custom.1 But it was a sleepless night, we may suppose, to some of the ..."

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