Meaning of sleepless in English

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  1. Pronunciation
  2. Classifying Adjective
    1. Definitions

  1. Pronunciation

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  1. Classifying Adjective

    sleepless

    Definitions

    1. experiencing or accompanied by sleeplessness

    Examples

    • « insomniac old people »
    • « insomniac nights »
    • « lay sleepless all night »
    • « twenty watchful, weary, tedious nights- Shakespeare »

    Synonyms

  2. 2. without having the eyes closed or covered by the eyelids

    Examples

    • « to an eye like mine, a lidless watcher of the public weal- Alfred Tennyson »

    Synonyms

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  • « I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats. »
    J. Courtney Sullivan
  • « Acceptable food rots while we are chased from bins behind restaurants, chased from sleeping on the street, chased from relieving ourselves unless we pay for food or gas, until finally we are so hungry, sleepless, smelly, constipated and beaten-down that we simply die of lack of will to live. »
    Jane Siberry
  • « I shall give you hunger, and pain, and sleepless nights. Also beauty, and satisfactions known to few, and glimpses of the heavenly life. None of these you shall have continually, and of their coming and going you shall not be foretold. »
    Howard Lindsay

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