What does wide-awake mean?
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wide-awake
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word wide-awake.
Princeton's WordNet
unsleeping, wide-awakeadjective
fully awake
"the unsleeping city"; "so excited she was wide-awake all night"
heads-up, wide-awakeadjective
fully alert and watchful
"played heads-up ball"
Wiktionary
wide-awakenoun
The sooty tern
wide-awakeadjective
completely or fully awake
wide-awakeadjective
alert, vigilant or watchful
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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
Wide-awakeadjective
fully awake; not drowsy or dull; hence, knowing; keen; alert
Wide-awakenoun
a broad-brimmed, low-crowned felt hat
Etymology and Origins
Wide-awake
The slang term for a soft felt hat, because, having no nap, it must always be wide awake.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of wide-awake in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of wide-awake in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
Examples of wide-awake in a Sentence
Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day.
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.
One very important ingredient of success is a good, wide-awake, persistent, tireless enemy.
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.
It takes a person who is wide awake to make his dream come true.
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