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noun
- 1. a person who is regularly unable to sleep: "I'm a terrible insomniac, I often write from four in the morning to seven"
adjective
- 1. regularly unable to sleep: "as the host of an all-night radio show, Shepard would commune with his insomniac listeners"
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noun [ C ] uk / ɪnˈsɒm.ni.æk / us / ɪnˈsɑːm.ni.æk / Add to word list Add to word list. someone who often finds it difficult to sleep. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Animal physiology: not sleeping & not unconscious. anti-sleep. come round phrasal verb. fully conscious. get up phrasal verb. insomnia. keep someone up phrasal verb. knock
: a person affected with insomnia. Many insomniacs develop anxiety about going to bed and they fear sleeplessness, which can worsen insomnia. Andrew Weil. Synonyms. Adjective. awake. sleepless. wakeful. wide-awake. See all Synonyms & Antonyms in Thesaurus. Examples of insomniac in a Sentence.
noun [ C ] us / ɪnˈsɑːm.ni.æk / uk / ɪnˈsɒm.ni.æk / Add to word list. someone who often finds it difficult to sleep. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Animal physiology: not sleeping & not unconscious. anti-sleep. come around phrasal verb. fully conscious. get up phrasal verb. insomnia. keep someone up phrasal verb. land. night owl. rise
An insomniac is a person who finds it difficult to sleep. Thousands of insomniacs listen to it throughout the night. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary .
An insomniac is someone who can't sleep, someone who stares at the ceiling all night or watches the minutes tick by on the alarm clock or counts sheep into the millions.
Definition of insomniac noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
An insomniac is someone who experiences insomnia —the inability to fall asleep or stay asleep for an adequate amount of time. Insomnia is often used casually to refer to occasional sleeplessness or a single instance of it.
Define insomniac. insomniac synonyms, insomniac pronunciation, insomniac translation, English dictionary definition of insomniac. n. One who suffers from insomnia. adj.
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difficulty in falling or staying asleep; sleeplessness. Latin, equivalent. to insomn ( is) sleepless ( in- in - 3 + somn ( us) sleep + -is adjective, adjectival suffix) + -ia - ia. 1685–95. in•som′ni•ous, adj. 'insomniac' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations): anti-insomniac - wakeful.
