Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not sleeping; ever wakeful.

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  • adjective Not sleeping
  • adjective constant

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  • adjective fully awake

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Examples

  • It had made O laugh to witness its uneasy adaptation by the anxious, suspicious, unsleeping overachievers who worked for him.

    O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011

  • I have tired myself out with reading, and the fuzziness of my unsleeping brain makes for melancholy.

    CHAPTER XI 2010

  • It had made O laugh to witness its uneasy adaptation by the anxious, suspicious, unsleeping overachievers who worked for him.

    O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011

  • It had made O laugh to witness its uneasy adaptation by the anxious, suspicious, unsleeping overachievers who worked for him.

    O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011

  • It had made O laugh to witness its uneasy adaptation by the anxious, suspicious, unsleeping overachievers who worked for him.

    O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011

  • It had made O laugh to witness its uneasy adaptation by the anxious, suspicious, unsleeping overachievers who worked for him.

    O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011

  • So wrote Jeremy Bentham in 1787, about his planned “Panopticon” — a temple of correction, circular in design, whose inmates would be exposed to an unsleeping scrutiny.

    Prison Porn 2010

  • All that night Saxon lay, unsleeping, without taking off her clothes, and when she arose in the morning and washed her face and dressed her hair she was aware of a strange numbness, of a feeling of constriction about her head as if it were bound by a heavy band of iron.

    CHAPTER XV 2010

  • And I listened, and grew fat and short-breathed, and in the long nights, unsleeping, worried that the men of the stranger tribe brought me meat for my wisdom and honour, but laughed at my fatness and undesire for the hunting and fighting.

    Chapter 21 2010

  • So wrote Jeremy Bentham in 1787, about his planned “Panopticon” — a temple of correction, circular in design, whose inmates would be exposed to an unsleeping scrutiny.

    Prison Porn 2010

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