What does Sleepless mean?

Definitions for Sleepless
ˈslip lɪssleep·less

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. insomniac, sleepless, watchfuladjective

    experiencing or accompanied by sleeplessness

    "insomniac old people"; "insomniac nights"; "lay sleepless all night"; "twenty watchful, weary, tedious nights"- Shakespeare

  2. lidless, sleeplessadjective

    always watchful

    "to an eye like mine, a lidless watcher of the public weal"- Alfred Tennyson

Wiktionary

  1. sleeplessadjective

    Characterized by an absence of sleep.

    I spent a sleepless night worrying about the exams.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Sleeplessadjective

    Wanting sleep.

    Etymology: from sleep

    The field
    To labour calls us, now with sweat impos’d,
    Though after sleepless night. John Milton, Paradise Lost.

    While pensive poets painful vigils keep,
    Sleepless themselves to give their readers sleep. Alexander Pope.

Wikipedia

  1. Sleepless

    Sleepless is the debut single from Australian musician Flume. The track features Sydney based duo Antony for Cleopatra and was released on 1 August 2011. Flume was discovered and signed in 2011 following an original artists competition managed by the Australian record company Future Classic. He submitted the tracks "Sleepless", "Over You" and "Paper Thin", but came second in the competition, after which he was picked up by Future Classic, and the singles were subsequently released.

ChatGPT

  1. sleepless

    Sleepless refers to experiencing or characterized by a lack of sleep or inability to obtain a sufficient amount of sleep. It can pertain to a person who is unable to sleep or to a period of time (such as a night) when someone cannot sleep. It's often associated with conditions like insomnia.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Sleeplessadjective

    having no sleep; wakeful

  2. Sleeplessadjective

    having no rest; perpetually agitated

Wikidata

  1. Sleepless

    Sleepless is a song by the band King Crimson, released as a single in 1984. It is best known for its distinctive opening bassline which features Tony Levin slapping on the strings to create its pulsating beat. It came from Levin's habit of tapping the strings in rehearsal and as well as at soundchecks. The 2001 re-release features several different versions of the song. The opening bassline has been used as the show theme for Australia's RAGE program, since 1987.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Sleepless in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Sleepless in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of Sleepless in a Sentence

  1. Renald Luzier:

    Finishing each edition is torture because the others are gone. Spending sleepless nights summoning the dead, wondering what Charb, Cabu, Honore Tignous would have done is exhausting.

  2. Shirley Cochrane:

    I’ve had so many sleepless nights.

  3. Siddharth Astir:

    If chasing it doesn't give you sleepless nights, then achieving it won't give you peaceful sleep.

  4. Snuki Zikalala:

    The race for Gauteng was nail-biting, and the last two days have been sleepless nights, it's a lesson that we should make sure that we win back the support of the middle class and skilled people. We used to say we don't care for clever blacks, that was a mistake. Those are the people who run the economy.

  5. Dicky Barrett:

    If it was an overnight success, it was one long, hard, sleepless night.

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