wide-awake
fully awake; with the eyes wide open.
alert, keen, or knowing: a wide-awake young woman.
Also called wide-awake hat . a soft, low-crowned felt hat.
the sooty tern.
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- wide-a·wake·ness, noun
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How to use wide-awake in a sentence
“I woke up at, like, six in the morning, wide awake,” Sclove remembered.
With a prayer that he may be on his feet and wide awake at the first sound of the horn, he sinks to his slumbers nightly.
The ‘12 Years a Slave’ Book Shows Slavery As Even More Appalling Than In the Film | Jimmy So | October 18, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThen she extinguished her candles and sat wide awake through the night, watching over her family in the dark.
Winter, Food Shortages, Descend on Syria’s Refugees | Mike Giglio | January 9, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTWe all have our wide-awake-at-3-in-the-morning nights, and no doubt Mrs. Romney has endured her share.
Wide Awake serves both as a memoir and a comprehensive study of the culture surrounding sleep.
She lay wide awake composing a letter which was nothing like the one which she wrote next day.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories | Kate ChopinIn a moment Skipper Worse was wide awake, and began to hum, as she moved her fingers along the lines.
Skipper Worse | Alexander Lange KiellandWhen Fanny visited his room she found him wide awake, sitting up in bed with bright, feverish eyes, and crying to himself.
The Life & Letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky | Modeste TchaikovskyIt is characteristic of Scattergood that, though wide awake, he gave no sign of knowledge of Mandy's act.
Scattergood Baines | Clarence Budington KellandThe gambling instinct was wide awake in Bud's nature—and as for Cash, he would hunt gold as long as he could carry pick and pan.
Cabin Fever | B. M. Bower
British Dictionary definitions for wide-awake
fully awake
keen, alert, or observant
Also called: wide-awake hat a hat with a low crown and very wide brim
Derived forms of wide-awake
- wide-awakeness, noun
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Other Idioms and Phrases with wide-awake
Fully awake; also, very alert. For example, He lay there, wide awake, unable to sleep, or She was wide awake to all the possibilities. The wide in this idiom alludes to the eyes being wide open. [Early 1800s]
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