Sleepless

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sleepless \Sleep"less\, a.
     1. Having no sleep; wakeful.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Having no rest; perpetually agitated. "Biscay's sleepless
        bay." --Byron.


        [1913 Webster] -- {Sleep"less*ly}, adv. --
        {Sleep"less*ness}, n.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  sleepless
       adj 1: experiencing or accompanied by sleeplessness; "insomniac old
              people"; "insomniac nights"; "lay sleepless all
              night"; "twenty watchful, weary, tedious nights"-
              Shakespeare [syn: {insomniac}, {watchful}]
       2: without having the eyes closed or covered by the eyelids;
          "to an eye like mine, a lidless watcher of the public
          weal"- Alfred Tennyson [syn: {lidless}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  123 Moby Thesaurus words for "sleepless":
     Argus-eyed, agile, alert, alive, all ears, all eyes, ardent,
     assiduous, attentive, aux aguets, awake, bright, constant,
     continuing, custodial, diligent, disturbed, dogged, eagle-eyed,
     enduring, energetic, faithful, fervent, guarded, hard, hardworking,
     hawk-eyed, immutable, inalterable, indefatigable, indomitable,
     industrious, insistent, insomniac, insomnious, invincible, keen,
     keen-eyed, laborious, lasting, lidless, loyal, never idle,
     never-tiring, nimble, observant, obstinate, on guard, on the,
     on the alert, on the ball, on the job, on the lookout,
     on the watch, open-eyed, patient, patient as Job, permanent,
     perseverant, persevering, persistent, persisting, pertinacious,
     plodding, plugging, preoccupied, prompt, prudent, qui vive, quick,
     rapt, ready, relentless, resolute, restless, sedulous, sharp,
     sharp-eyed, single-minded, slogging, slumberless, smart, stable,
     steadfast, steady, strenuous, stubborn, tenacious, tireless,
     unabating, unblinking, unconquerable, undaunted, undiscouraged,
     undrooping, unfailing, unfaltering, unflagging, unflinching,
     unintermitting, uninterrupted, unnodding, unrelaxing, unrelenting,
     unremitting, unsleeping, unsparing, unswerving, untiring,
     unwavering, unwearied, unwearying, unwinking, utterly attentive,
     vehement, vigilant, wakeful, wary, watchful, weariless, wide-awake,
     with open eyes, zealous