[syn: lidless, sleepless]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
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, sleepless, watchful]
2: always watchful; "to an eye like mine, a lidless watcher of
the public weal"- Alfred Tennyson [syn: lidless,
sleepless]