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- Dictionarysleepless/ˈsliːplɪs/
adjective
- 1. characterized by or experiencing lack of sleep: "another sleepless night"
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If something is sleepless, it's wakeful or restless, like a sleepless night spent in an unfamiliar house listening to spooky noises. You might be sleepless the night before an exciting trip, or sleepless in your sleeping bag because the ground feels cold and hard beneath you.
sleepless | American Dictionary. adjective [ not gradable ] us / ˈslip·ləs / Add to word list. without sleeping, or without being able to sleep:
1. : not able to sleep. lay sleepless with fever. 2. : affording no sleep. sleepless nights. 3. : unceasingly active or operative. sleepless casinos. sleeplessly adverb. sleeplessness noun. Synonyms. awake. insomniac. wakeful. wide-awake. See all Synonyms & Antonyms in Thesaurus. Examples of sleepless in a Sentence. He lay sleepless in bed.
adjective [ not gradable ] us / ˈslip·ləs / Add to word list. without sleeping, or without being able to sleep: I’ve spent so many sleepless nights worrying about him.
(sliːpləs) 1.adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] A sleepless night is one during which you do not sleep. I have sleepless nights worrying about her. Synonyms: wakeful, disturbed, restless, insomniac More Synonyms of sleepless. 2.adjective. Someone who is sleepless is unable to sleep. A sleepless baby can seem to bring little reward.
Sleepless definition: without sleep. See examples of SLEEPLESS used in a sentence.
adj. 1. without sleep or rest: a sleepless journey. 2. unable to sleep. 3. always watchful or alert. 4. chieflypoetic always active or moving: the sleepless tides. ˈsleeplesslyadv. ˈsleeplessnessn.
adjective. uk / ˈsliːpləs / us. sleepless night. Add to word list. a night when you are not able to sleep: He'd spent a sleepless night worrying about his exam. sleeplessness. noun [ U ] (Definition of sleepless from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Translations of sleepless. in Chinese (Traditional)
Definition of sleepless adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
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