wakeful
IPA: wˈeɪkfʌɫ
adjective
- Awake; not sleeping.
- Sleepless.
- Vigilant and alert; watchful.
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Examples of "wakeful" in Sentences
- She is wakeful due to insomnia.
- It's a vigil, a state of wakefulness.
- It is important to be wakeful and vigilant.
- Evidently this was not one of his "wakeful" periods.
- Always, always, there are wakeful eyes on the Elsinore.
- I think he's a "wakeful" baby, whatever the fuck that means.
- Levinas talks of the other in terms of insomnia and wakefulness.
- The point was, that as twilight and evening came on he became wakeful.
- They passed the night on land, with great precautions and wakeful vigilance.
- They may experience sleep wake cycles, or be in a state of chronic wakefulness.
- “No peaceful sleep, Domnuathi, but a wakeful eternity in the deepest pits of Annwn.”
- Cragg used it as a rendezvous or workshop and visited it stealthily on his "wakeful" nights.
- Fergus and I, after having lain awake for a considerable time, taking it for granted that they had given up all intention of attacking the house, at length fell into a kind of wakeful doze from which we were at once aroused by a loud knocking at the hall-door.
- That we sometimes recognize certain objects, such as wakeful human beings, as agents, does not mean that there’s a separate category of entities — we clearly also recognize these agents as physical objects subject to the same physical laws as any other object — why not?
- And sitting here surrounded with roses and with that languorous lilt in her ear, Crystal felt as if she too were under the influence of some unseen Mesmer, who had lulled the activity of her brain into a kind of wakeful sleep even while her senses remained keenly, vitally on the alert.