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单词 wakeful
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wakefuladj.

Brit. /ˈweɪkf(ᵿ)l/, U.S. /ˈweɪkfəl/
Etymology: < wake v. + -ful suffix.
1. Keeping awake, esp. while others sleep, not yielding to sleep.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > state of being awake > [adjective] > wakeful or sleepless
wakrong1340
wakya1542
watchful1548
wakeful1549
vigilant1620
sleepless1633
waking1690
unslumbering1718
unslumbrous1818
slumberless1820
1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. Col. iv. f. ix Continue in prayer, not as dull & heauy people by reason of any surfetyng, but as sober & wakefull.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. v. sig. E3v The wakefull dogs did neuer cease to bay.
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. ii. 55 As wakefull Students, in the Winters night Against the steele,..Strike sodaine sparks into their Tinder-boxe.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 38 The wakeful Bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest Covert hid Tunes her nocturnal Note. View more context for this quotation
1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 201. ⁋10 One of the most wakeful of the Soporifick Assembly.
1729 T. Cooke Tales 44 If the Soul..Still bids the wakeful Eye of Sorrow flow.
1821 Ld. Byron Marino Faliero (2nd issue) iii. ii. 90 Saint Mark's great bell at dawn shall find me wakeful!
2.
a. Habitually keeping awake; figurative keeping on the alert, vigilant, watchful.
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the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > vigilance > [adjective]
wakerc1000
watchingOE
wakingc1175
wakerlyc1400
circumspect1430
vigilant?a1500
prick-eared?1550
invigilant1570
vigil?1576
wakeful1589
eyeful1594
open-eyed1601
argus-eyed1603
watchful1603
alert1618
awake1619
vigilant1655
guardful1749
1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xix. 188 When Prince for his people is wakefull and wise.
1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xx. 730/1 These..dangers..did worthily make the King wakefull euen ouer smaller accidents.
1823 ‘J. Bee’ Slang at Wake The Scot considers no man awake or wakeful, who is not alive to his own interests.
1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. vi. 163 He..had in all things shown himself a daring and wakeful captain.
b. of dispositions or actions.
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the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > vigilance > [adjective] > characterized by vigilance
vigilant1531
wakeful1561
watchful1582
unwinking1782
monitoring1907
monitored1940
1561 T. Norton & T. Sackville Gorboduc i. ii. 193 The brother, that shoulde be the brothers aide, And haue a wakefull care for his defence, Gapes for his death.
a1639 W. Whately Prototypes (1640) ii. xxvi. 91 God..hath disposed of things so by his wakefull providence.
a1771 T. Gray Agrippina in Poems (1775) 135 We could not have beguil'd With more elusive speed the dazzled sight Of wakeful jealousy.
1803 H. K. White Sonn. Dermody in Clifton Grove 98 The pale Pilot,..as he plies His wakeful task.
1817 T. Chalmers Series Disc. Christian Revel. (1852) v. 116 Bending a wakeful regard over the men of this sinful world.
1871 J. R. Macduff Memories of Patmos v. 57 His unresting, wakeful vigilance.
c. transferred. Of inanimate agencies: Continually active, never ceasing or resting.
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the world > action or operation > continuing > [adjective] > continually in action or operation
wakeful1697
sleepless1792
unslumbering1862
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 305 A hundred Altars fed, with wakeful Fire.
3. Unable to sleep, restless.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > state of being awake > [adjective] > wakeful or sleepless > unable to sleep
sleepless1412
insomnious1658
wakeful1676
1676 J. Dryden Aureng-Zebe ii. 23 I shrink far off—Dissembling sleep, but wakeful with the fright. The day takes off the pleasure of the night.
1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho III. iv. 86 Her spirits were wakeful and agitated, and, finding it impossible to sleep, she determined [etc.].
1853 M. Arnold Sohrab & Rustum in Poems (new ed.) 5 All night long He had lain wakeful, tossing on his bed.
1860 W. M. Thackeray Lovel (1861) vi. 220 Tick—tock! Moment after moment I heard on the clock the clinking footsteps of wakeful grief.
4. Marked by absence or want of sleep.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > state of being awake > [adjective] > wakeful or sleepless > marked by absence or want of sleep
wakefula1623
a1623 W. Pemble Introd. Worthy Receiving Sacrament (1628) 48 Sometimes a wakefull bed calls upon us to examine our hearts.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis ix, in tr. Virgil Wks. 470 They..pass the wakeful Night in Feasts and Play.
1870 R. S. Hawker Footprints Former Men Cornwall 208 That night an inspiration visited me in my wakeful bed.
5. Said of dreams, or what is normally characteristic of sleep: Waking.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > state of being awake > [adjective] > of anything normally characteristic of sleep
wakeful1638
1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients 22 Among our idle hopes and wakefull dreames, these Images do follow us so close.
1642 J. Denham Sophy i. 5 All thy feares, Thy wakefull terrors, and affrighting dreames..have now Their full rewards.
1820 J. Keats Eve of St. Agnes in Lamia & Other Poems 96 In sort of wakeful swoon, perplex'd she lay.
1837 Ld. Tennyson Oh! that 'twere Possible in Ld. Northampton Tribute 244 In a wakeful dose I sorrow For the hand, the lips, the eyes—For the meeting of to-morrow.
1886 W. J. Tucker Life E. Europe 316 Following the wayward turn of wakeful fancies.
6. Rousing (one) from sleep, awakening. Obsolete.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > state of being awake > [adjective] > that wakes or rouses
wakeful1645
expergefacient1821
wakey-wakey1946
1645 J. Milton On Christ's Nativity: Hymn xvi, in Poems 8 Yet first to those ychain'd in sleep, The wakefull trump of doom must thunder through the deep.

Derivatives

ˈwakefully adv.
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the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > vigilance > [adverb]
vigilantly1531
watchfully1538
watchingly1552
wakefullya1586
guardfully?1611
unwinkingly1849
a-watch1856
alertly1865
the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > state of being awake > [adverb]
wakinglya1425
wakefully1776
wakerifely1825
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. iv. sig. Ll2 Making the cowardly Clinias to haue care of the watch, which he knew his own feare would make him very wakefully performe.
1776 S. Johnson in Boswell Life Johnson (1904) I. 654 He should have a lamp constantly burning..and if wakefully disturbed, take a book, and read.
1884 Leeds Mercury 15 Nov. 6/6 England stands firmly and wakefully on guard behind the line up to which the Russians have seen fit to advance.
ˈwakefulness n.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > state of being awake > [noun]
watchc1000
wakea1250
watching?1550
wakeness1585
vigilation1598
wakerifeness1606
wakefulness1626
the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > vigilance > [noun]
wareness971
i-warnessa1250
awaitc1374
watch14..
circumspecta1513
vigilancy1537
vigilance1570
advigilancy1577
wait?1578
vigilantnessa1599
lookout1599
watchfulness1611
alert1801
wakefulness1830
outlook1879
monitoring1924
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §925 There be other Perfumes, that..are fit to be vsed in Burning Agues,..and too much Wakefulnesse.
1753 Adventurer No. 39. ⁋11 So, perhaps, to each individual of the human species, nature has ordained the same quantity of wakefulness and sleep.
1830 S. T. Coleridge Table-talk 1 May If he had relaxed the stern wakefulness of his reason for a single moment.
1847 R. T. Evanson & H. Maunsell Managem. Children (ed. 5) 352 Wakefulness is a very prominent character of nervous irritation in the child, and should always arrest attention.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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