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Princeton's WordNet

  1. unsleeping, wide-awakeadjective

    fully awake

    "the unsleeping city"; "so excited she was wide-awake all night"

  2. heads-up, wide-awakeadjective

    fully alert and watchful

    "played heads-up ball"

Wiktionary

  1. wide-awakenoun

    The sooty tern

  2. wide-awakeadjective

    completely or fully awake

  3. wide-awakeadjective

    alert, vigilant or watchful

ChatGPT

  1. wide-awake

    Wide-awake refers to a state of being fully awake, alert and attentive. It can be used to describe someone who is not at all tired, often due to excitement or nervousness. It also refers to someone who is very aware and quick to understand things.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Wide-awakeadjective

    fully awake; not drowsy or dull; hence, knowing; keen; alert

  2. Wide-awakenoun

    a broad-brimmed, low-crowned felt hat

Etymology and Origins

  1. Wide-awake

    The slang term for a soft felt hat, because, having no nap, it must always be wide awake.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of wide-awake in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of wide-awake in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of wide-awake in a Sentence

  1. Anonymous:

    Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day.

  2. Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi:

    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.

  3. Frank Shutts:

    One very important ingredient of success is a good, wide-awake, persistent, tireless enemy.

  4. Octavio Paz:

    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.

  5. Roger Babson:

    It takes a person who is wide awake to make his dream come true.

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