adjective (written)
1 not sleeping; unable to sleep:
He lay wakeful all night.
2 (of a period at night) spent with little or no sleep:
She had spent many wakeful nights worrying about him.
wakefulness noun [U]:
She began to drift between sleep and wakefulness. * A sudden noise jolted him into wakefulness.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for wakeful is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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