sleepless
Word family
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++sleep·less /ˈsliːpləs/ adjective 1 a sleepless night a night when you are unable to sleep 不眠之夜 Adrian spent a sleepless night wondering what to do. 阿德里安一夜未眠，在想该怎么办。2 unable to sleep 失眠的，无法入睡的 She lay sleepless for hours, worrying. 她忧心忡忡地躺了几个小时都无法入睡。 —sleeplessly adverb —sleeplessness noun [uncountable]Examples from the Corpus
sleepless• The four travellers passed a sleepless night, each thinking of the gift Oz had promised to bestow on him.• Sheila spent many sleepless nights figuring out how to deliver for her first major customer.• Doing anything more led to agony, sleepless nights, months of drinking and moping and boring her closest friends to death.• Ask yourself: what will be causing them their sleepless nights ten years from now?• There are many life situations and emotional circumstances that can cause sleepless nights.• the sleepless parents of newborn babies• They brought him back to her six days later, ending one vigil of sleepless prayers and beginning another.• Having lain sleepless until the early hours, it was almost eleven-thirty the next day before Luce surfaced.sleep·less adjectiveChineseSyllable
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sleepless
sleep‧less /ˈsliːpləs/
adjective
Adrian spent a sleepless night wondering what to do.
2. unable to sleep:
She lay sleepless for hours, worrying.
—sleeplessly adverb
—sleeplessness noun [uncountable]
sleep‧less /ˈsliːpləs/
adjective Word Family: noun: sleep, sleeper, sleepiness, sleeplessness; adjective: asleep, sleepless, sleepy; adverb: sleepily, sleeplessly; verb: sleep
1. a sleepless night a night when you are unable to sleep: 2. unable to sleep:
—sleeplessly adverb
—sleeplessness noun [uncountable]