Wakeful

Definition: Wakeful

Wakeful

Adjective

1. Carefully observant or attentive; on the lookout for possible danger; "a policy of open-eyed awareness"; "the vigilant eye of the town watch"; "there was a watchful dignity in the room"; "a watchful parent with a toddler in tow".

2. (of sleep) easily disturbed; "in a light doze"; "a light sleeper"; "a restless wakeful night".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "wakeful" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Synonyms: Wakeful

Care

Guarded, on one's guard; on the qui vivre, on the alert, on watch, on the lookout; awake, broad awake, vigilant; watchful, wakeful, wistful; Argus-eyed; wide awake; (intelligent); on the watch for (expectant).

Crosswords: Wakeful

Books

• A Wakeful Faith: Spiritual Practice in the Real World (reference)

• Freddy Bear's Wakeful Winter (reference)

• Hypnosis, the Wakeful Sleep (reference)

• Lewis Carroll's Bedside Book: 'Entertainment for the Wakeful Hours' (reference)

• Mural of Wakeful Sleep (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Pastor Brady Blade, Sr.: The Wakeful and Watchful Eyes (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Health

Following this initial euphoria, the user goes "on the nod," an alternately wakeful and drowsy state. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "wakeful": be wakeful ♦ have a wakeful night ♦ spend a wakeful night ♦ wakeful hours ♦ wakeful night. Additional references.

Albanian

vigjilent (alert, argus-eyed, unwinking, vigilant, watchful), syçelë (open-eyed, wary, watchful), 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, sleepless, smart, waking), i pagjumë (dreamless, sleepless). (various references)

Arabic 

‏يقظ (alert, awake, awoke, careful, circumspect, jaunty, lively, mindful, napless, observant, on duty, open-eyed, prompt, springy, vigilant, wary, watchful, wide awake), ‏عاجز عن النوم, ‏أرق (insomnia, wakefulness, watchful). (various references)

Bulgarian 

буден (alert, alive, awake, sleepless, unsleeping, waking), безсънен (sleepless, waking), бдителен (alert, awake, hawk-eyed, jealous, observant, open-eyed, unsleeping, unwinking, vigilant, waking, wary, watchful, wide awake). (various references)

Czech

bezesný (dreamless, sleepless), bdící (awake). (various references)

Farsi 

هشیار (Wary), گوش بزنگ (Alert, Vigilant), شب زنده دار (Wanener), بیدار (Awake, Vigilant). (various references)

Finnish

valpas (alert, vigilant, watchful). (various references)

French

vigilant (wary, watchful), éveillé. (various references)

German

wachsam (alert, observant, on one's guard, vigilant, vigilantly, wakefully, wary, watchful, watchfully), schlaflos (sleepless, sleeplessly). (various references)

Greek 

προσεκτικόσ (advertent, attentive, canny, careful, cautious, chary, chary of, close, heedful, mindful, observing, painstaking, precautious, regardful, tactful, thoughtful, wary, watchful), άγρυπνοσ (alert, awake, open-eyed, sleepless, wake, watchdog, watchfulness). (various references)

Hebrew 

ער� י (alert, aware, pert, sprightly, vigilant, watchful, wide awake), ער (alert, awake, vigilant). (various references)

Hungarian

nem álmos, ébren levő, éber (alert, awake, sleepless, to be wide awake, to keep the eyes peeled, unsleeping, vigilant, watchful, wide awake), álmatlan (restless, sleepless). (various references)

Italian

sveglio (able, adroit, alert, awake, brainy, bright, clever, cute, deft, dexterous, downy, proficient, quick, sharp, skillful, smart, wide awake). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

眼が冴える (to be wakeful, to be wide-awake), 寝損なう (to be wakeful, to miss a chance to sleep), 寝損う (to be wakeful, to miss a chance to sleep). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ねそ�"なう (to be wakeful, to miss a chance to sleep), めがさえる (to be wakeful, to be wide-awake). (various references)

Manx

neuchadlagh (insomniac), gyn cadley (sleepless, wakefully). (various references)

Pig Latin

akefulway.(various references)

Portuguese

vigilante (acock, argus-eyed, awake, hawk-eyed, observant, on the alert, open-eyed, pop-eyed, unsleeping, unwinking, vigilant, waking, watchful), velado (filmy, foggy), insone (restless), desperto (awake, waking), alerta (acock, adroit, agile, alarm, alert, brisk, keen, prompt, unwinking, vigilant, waking, watchful), acordado (awake, concerted, waking). (various references)

Romanian

vigilent (alert, unwinking, vigilant, watchful), treaz (alert, astir, awake, sleepless, slumberless, sober, unwinking, vigilant, watchful, watching). (various references)

Russian 

бодрствующий (sleepless, waking, wide awake), бессонный (sleepless), бдительный (alert, Argus-eyed, hawk-eyed, open-eyed, unsleeping, unwinking, vigilant, waking, ware, watchful, wide awake, wide-awake). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

budan (argus-eyed, awake, sleepless, unsleeping, vigilant, ware, watchful), bez sna. (various references)

Spanish

vigilante (alert, caretaker, keeper, observant, overlooker, Proctor, superintendent, unsleeping, vigilant, watchful), insomne (restless, sleepless), desvelado (sleepless), despierto (alert, awake, unsleeping). (various references)

Swedish

vaken (alert, awake, lively, quick, sharp, wakening). (various references)

Turkish

uykusuz (sleepless, unsleeping), uyanık (alert, argus-eyed, astir, awake, aware, canny, conscious, enterprising, fly, guarded, heady, leery, nimble, on the alert, open-eyed, sharp, shrewd, sleepless, smart, unwinking, vigilant, waking, wary, watchful, wide awake, with it), tetikte (argus-eyed, at full cock, aware, guarded, on the alert, quick on the trigger, unwinking, vigilant, watchful). (various references)

Ukrainian

сторожкий, чуткий, невсипущий (unsleeping), недремний (waking), безсонний (sleepless, waking). (various references)

Vietnamese 

thao thức (watchful), tỉnh táo (alert, conscious, flew, fly), không ngủ được cảnh giác. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "wakeful": wakefully, wakefulness, wakefulnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Wakeful" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aweful. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: waeful.

-2 letters: awful, flake, fluke.

-3 letters: alef, fake, feal, flak, flaw, flea, flew, flue, fuel, kale, lake, leaf, leak, leku, wake, wale, walk, wauk, waul, weak, weal, weka.

-4 letters: ale, auk, awe, awl, eau, elf, elk, feu, few, flu, kae, kaf, kea, kef, kue, law, lea, lek, leu, uke, wae.

-5 letters: ae, al, aw, ef.

+2 letters: wakefully.

+4 letters: wakefulness.