wide-awake

Speech parts

1. wide-awake - Noun

2. wide-awake - Adjective

3. wide-awake - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Fully awake; not drowsy or dull; hence, knowing; keen; alert.

A broad-brimmed, low-crowned felt hat.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Alternative names

wide awake

Synonyms

unsleeping active sleepless wakeful deep engaged broad interested ready aware alive sharp bright quick absorbed
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Antonyms

abed lost absorbed absent unconscious sleeping
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Examples

Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason. Octavio Paz

Because, really, what was worse than lying wide-awake in the dark, watching your life drip away, one irreplaceable minute after another? Tom Perrotta

That a man can change himself...and master his own destiny is the conclusion of every mind who is wide-awake to the power of right thought.”(Christian D. Larson) Rhonda Byrne

Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised. Leo Tolstoy

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the unsleeping city Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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