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Definition: Sleepless |
SleeplessAdjective1. Experiencing or accompanied by sleeplessness; "insomniac old people"; "insomniac nights"; "lay sleepless all night"; "twenty watchful, weary, tedious nights"- Shakespeare. 2. Without having the eyes closed or covered by the eyelids; "to an eye like mine, a lidless watcher of the public weal"- Alfred Tennyson. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sleepless" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Synonyms: SleeplessSynonyms: insomniac (adj), lidless (adj), watchful (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Sleepless |
| English words defined with "sleepless": insomniac, Insomnious ♦ sleepless person, sleeplessly, Slumberless ♦ watchful. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "sleepless": Bristol Boy ♦ Sleepless Hat ♦ Urgan. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "sleepless": Agrypnotic ♦ insomnia. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | The city winks a sleepless eye (Human Nature; performing artist: Michael Jackson; writing credit: Steve Porcaro & John Bettis) So many sleepless nights I wonder (One Day In Your Life; performing artist: Anastacia) Oh, girl, if I could count all the sleepless nights, (What Kind of Man Would I be?; performing artist: Chicago) Well I don't wanna live my life, too many sleepless nights (Walking Away; performing artist: Craig David) Sleepless nights (SEPARATE WAYS (WORLDS APART); performing artist: Journey) | |
Movie/TV Titles | A Sleepless Night (1948) Sleepless Tuesday (1945) A Sleepless Night (1928) Meatless Days and Sleepless Nights (1918) Sleepless Nights (1985) | |
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President Abraham Lincoln | Beware of rashness, but with energy, and sleepless vigilance, go forward and give us victories. |
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| "Sleepless" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 98.03% of the time. "Sleepless" is used about 203 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 98.03% | 199 | 21,651 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.97% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 203 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "sleepless": be sleepless ♦ sleepless person ♦ stay sleepless all night. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "sleepless"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | pa gjumë, i zgjuar (apt, artful, astir, awake, awaken, bright, cagey, cagy, clever, exalted, ingenious, intelligent, nimble, quick, quick-witted, ready-witted, reasonable, responsible, sagacious, sharp, sharp-witted, smart, wakeful, waking), i pagjumë (dreamless, wakeful). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | ضاحي, صاحي, الذي لاينام. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | неспокоен (anxious, apprehensive, broken, nervous, nervy, raucous, restive, restless, spooky, uneasy, unrestful, unsound, worried, yeasty), буден (alert, alive, awake, unsleeping, wakeful, waking), безсънен (wakeful, waking). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | bezesný (dreamless, wakeful), bez spánku. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | slapeloos. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | uneton. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | sans sommeil, qui ne dort pas, éveillé. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | schlaflos (sleeplessly, wakeful). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | άγρυπνοσ (alert, awake, open-eyed, wake, wakeful, watchdog, watchfulness), άυπνοσ (awake), ακοίμητοσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | "ו" ש ". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | álmatlan (restless, wakeful). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | insonne (wakeful). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 徹夜 (all night, all night vigil, sleepless night). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ねずば" (night watch, sleepless vigil, vigilance), ねずのば" (night watch, night watchman, sleepless vigil), ふし"ば" (night watch, sleepless vigil, vigilance), いっすいもしなかった (had a sleepless night), てつや (all night, all night vigil, sleepless night). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | sheer-ghooisht, gyn cadley (wakeful, wakefully). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eeplessslay sem sono (waking), sem dormir (waking), sem descanso, agitado (agitated, astir, bustling, choppy, eventide, fidgety, frantic, fretful, fussy, hectic, jumpy, restless, rough, trembling, troubled, troublous, tumultuous, turbulent, unquiet, unsettled, working). (various references) treaz (alert, astir, awake, slumberless, sober, unwinking, vigilant, wakeful, watchful, watching), nedormit (overwatched). (various references) бессонный (wakeful). (various references) nemiran (restless, troublous), budan (argus-eyed, awake, unsleeping, vigilant, wakeful, ware, watchful), besan (amok, amuck, furious, mad, wild). (various references) insomne (restless, wakeful), desvelado (wakeful). (various references) sömnlös (wakeful). (various references) นอนไม่หลับ. (various references) uykusuz (unsleeping, wakeful), uyanık (alert, argus-eyed, astir, awake, aware, canny, conscious, enterprising, fly, guarded, heady, leery, nimble, on the alert, open-eyed, sharp, shrewd, smart, unwinking, vigilant, wakeful, waking, wary, watchful, wide awake, with it), huzursuz (anxious, ill at ease, on pins and needles, out of sorts, peaceless, restive, restless, tremulous, uneasy, unrestful, unsettled, worrisome), dikkatli (argus-eyed, assiduous, attentive, canny, careful, cautious, circumspect, gingerly, heedful, intense, intent, mindful, particular, regardful, rigorous, scrupulous, solicitous, studious, thoughtful, wary, watchful). (various references) bimaza. (various references) невгамовний (fidgety, immitigable, indomitable, rambunctious, restless, unbridled, wild), безсонний (wakeful, waking), пильний (alert, attentive, awake, circumspect, circumspective, dusty, hawk-eyed, open-eyed, staring, vigilant, ware, wide awake). (various references) thức (article, thing, unsleeping, wide awake), không ngủ (unsleeping, watchful). (various references) anhunog. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | insomnem. (various references) |
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Words beginning with "sleepless": sleeplessly, sleeplessness, sleeplessnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Sleepless" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sheepless. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "sleepless" (pronounced slē"plus) |
| 4 | -p l u s | accomplice, hapless, helpless, hopeless, shapeless, surplus, topless, zipless. |
| 3 | -l u s | acropolis, ageless, aimless, airless, Amaryllis, anomalous, atlas, bacillus, backless, balas, baseless, blameless, bloodless, bolus, boneless, bottomless, boundless, brainless, breathless, calculus, callous, callus, careless, Carolus, cashless, ceaseless, childless, classless, cloudless, clueless, Colas, colorless, cordless, countless, cutlass, defenseless, digitalis, directionless, doubtless, driverless, ductless, earless, effortless, endless, expressionless, eyeless, fabulous, faceless, fatherless, fearless, featherless, featureless, feckless, fellas, fenceless, flawless, flightless, frictionless, frivolous, fruitless, Gallus, garrulous, gladiolus, godless, graceless, groundless, guileless, guiltless, hairless, harmless, headless, heartless, homeless, hornless, humorless, incredulous, irregardless, issueless, jealous, jobless, keyless, lactobacillus, landless, lawless, leaderless, leafless, legless, libelous, lifeless, limbless, limitless, listless, loveless, luckless, malice, marvelous, meaningless, meatless, megalopolis, merciless, meticulous, metropolis, mindless, miraculous, motherless, motionless, nameless, nautilus, nebulous, necklace, necropolis, needless, odorless, overzealous, Oxalis, painless, palace, paperless, peerless, pendulous, penniless, perilous, pilotless, pitiless, pointless, polis, populace, populous, powerless, priceless, prothallus, purposeless, querulous, reckless, regardless, relentless, remorseless, restless, ridiculous, riskless, rootless, rudderless, ruthless, scandalous, scoreless, scrupulous, scurrilous, seamless, selfless, senseless, sexless, shameless, shiftless, skinless, sleeveless, smokeless, solace, soulless, speechless, spineless, spotless, stainless, stateless, stimulus, stylus, syphilis, tantalus, tasteless, thankless, thoughtless, ticketless, tieless, timeless, tireless, toothless, treeless, trellis, tremulous, unscrupulous, useless, valueless, victimless, voiceless, warrantless, weightless, windlass, windowless, wireless, witless, wordless, worthless, zealous. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-e-l-l-p-s-s-s" | |
-2 letters: lessees. | |
-3 letters: lessee, selles, sepses, sleeps, speels, spells. | |
-4 letters: epees, esses, peels, peles, seels, seeps, selle, sells, sleep, speel, spell. | |
-5 letters: eels, ells, else, epee, eses, lees, less, peel, pees, pele, seel, seep, sees, sell, sels. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-e-l-l-p-s-s-s" | |
+2 letters: sleeplessly. | |
+3 letters: helplessness, pleasureless, speechlessly, supersellers. | |
+4 letters: helpfulnesses, pliablenesses, sleeplessness. | |
+5 letters: culpablenesses, helplessnesses, planlessnesses, plotlessnesses. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6C 65 65 70 6C 65 73 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... .-.. . . .--. .-.. . ... ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101100 01100101 01100101 01110000 01101100 01100101 01110011 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S l e e p l e s s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006C 0065 0065 0070 006C 0065 0073 0073 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)537871718278718585 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Familiar 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Translations: Ancient 12. Derivations | 13. Rhymes 14. Anagrams 15. Orthography 16. Bibliography |
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