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English Dictionary: sleepless by the DICT Development Group
2 results for sleepless
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sleepless
adj
  1. experiencing or accompanied by sleeplessness; "insomniac old people"; "insomniac nights"; "lay sleepless all night"; "twenty watchful, weary, tedious nights"- Shakespeare
    Synonym(s): insomniac, sleepless, watchful
  2. always watchful; "to an eye like mine, a lidless watcher of the public weal"- Alfred Tennyson
    Synonym(s): lidless, sleepless
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sleepless \Sleep"less\, a.
      1. Having no sleep; wakeful.
  
      2. Having no rest; perpetually agitated. [bd]Biscay's
            sleepless bay.[b8] --Byron. -- {Sleep"less*ly}, adv. --
            {Sleep"less*ness}, n.
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