Synonyms for sleepless
ˈslip lɪssleep·less

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1. sleepless

   Vigilant implies more sustained activity and more intelligent volition than alert; one may be habitually alert by reason of native quickness of perception and thought, or one may be momentarily alert under some excitement or expectancy; one who is vigilant is so with thoughtful purpose. One is vigilant against danger or harm; he may be alert or watchful for good as well as against evil; he is wary in view of suspected stratagem, trickery, or treachery. A person may be wakeful because of some merely physical excitement or excitability, as through insomnia; yet he may be utterly careless and negligent in his wakefulness, the reverse of watchful; a person who is truly watchful must keep himself wakeful while on watch, in which case wakeful has something of mental quality. Watchful, from the Saxon, and vigilant, from the Latin, are almost exact equivalents; but vigilant has somewhat more of sharp definiteness and somewhat more suggestion of volition; one may be habitually watchful; one is vigilant of set purpose and for direct cause, as in the presence of an enemy. Compare ALERT.

   Synonyms:
   alert, awake, careful, cautious, circumspect, on the alert, on the lookout, vigilant, wakeful, wary, watchful, wide-awake

   Antonyms:
   careless, drowsy, dull, heedless, inattentive, incautious, inconsiderate, neglectful, negligent, oblivious, thoughtless, unwary

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1. insomniac, sleepless, watchfuladjective

   experiencing or accompanied by sleeplessness

   "insomniac old people"; "insomniac nights"; "lay sleepless all night"; "twenty watchful, weary, tedious nights"- Shakespeare

   Synonyms:
   lidless, insomniac, watchful, alert

   Antonyms:
   unalert, unwatchful, asleep(p), unvigilant

2. lidless, sleeplessadjective

   always watchful

   "to an eye like mine, a lidless watcher of the public weal"- Alfred Tennyson

   Synonyms:
   lidless, insomniac, watchful

   Antonyms:
   unalert, unwatchful, asleep(p), unvigilant

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1. sleeplessadjective

   Synonyms:
   wakeful, without sleep

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1. sleeplessadjective

   Synonyms:
   wakeful, insomnious, insomnolent

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1. List of paraphrases for "sleepless":

   malevolent, malicious

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1. Ilya Ivanyuk:

   When all this bad news started to appear, I was concerned, i had a few sleepless nights.

2. Renald Luzier:

   Finishing each edition is torture because the others are gone. Spending sleepless nights summoning the dead, wondering what Charb, Cabu, Honore Tignous would have done is exhausting.

3. Dicky Barrett:

   If it was an overnight success, it was one long, hard, sleepless night.

4. Saugat Poudyal:

   It's been sleepless nights for the last seven days... I've hardly slept for two hours, i think the global community needs to step forward from now on. It's the lack of oxygen that's going to bring about a huge catastrophe here.

5. James Wan:

   There were many sleepless nights poring over hours of footage trying to cull, not just for visuals, but also audio stuff Paul had done.