wakefuladjective
uk/ˈweɪk.fəl/us/ˈweɪk.fəl/formalnot able to sleep, or used to describe a period of time when you are not able to sleep:
We spent a wakeful night worrying about where he was.
She lay there wakeful the whole night.
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Animal physiology: not sleeping & not unconscious
- awoke
- be in the land of the living idiom
- come round
- conscious
- consciousness
- keep sb up
- knock
- land
- morning person
- not sleep a wink idiom
- rise and shine! idiom
- rouse
- sit up
- stay
- stir
- toss
- wait up
- wake (sb) up
- waking
- woken
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wakefulness
noun [ U ] uk/ˈweɪk.fəl.nəs/us/ˈweɪk.fəl.nəs/