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Synonyms for sleepless

Adjective

1. insomniac, sleepless, watchful, awake(predicate) (vs. asleep)
usage: experiencing or accompanied by sleeplessness; "insomniac old people"; "insomniac nights"; "lay sleepless all night"; "twenty watchful, weary, tedious nights"- Shakespeare
2. lidless, sleepless, alert (vs. unalert)
usage: without having the eyes closed or covered by the eyelids; "to an eye like mine, a lidless watcher of the public weal"- Alfred Tennyson
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