Crossword clues for insomniac
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1877 (adj.); 1879 (n.), from insomnia.
Wiktionary
a. Suffering from or pertaining to insomnia. n. One who suffers an inability or difficulty sleeping; a sufferer from insomnia.
WordNet
adj. experiencing or accompanied by sleeplessness; "insomniac old people"; "insomniac nights"; "lay sleepless all night"; "twenty watchful, weary, tedious nights"- Shakespeare [syn: sleepless, watchful]
n. someone who cannot sleep [syn: sleepless person]
Wikipedia
Insomniac is the fourth studio album by the American punk rock band Green Day, released on October 10, 1995 by Reprise Records. Though it peaked at number 2 on the Billboard 200 chart and was certified 2x platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America in 1996, Insomniac did not have the sales endurance of its predecessor Dookie, largely due to its slightly darker lyrical tone and its heavier and more abrasive sound. Insomniac has sold over 2,100,000 copies in the United States according to Billboard as of 2012. The album was reissued on vinyl on May 12, 2009.
Insomniac or The Insomniac may refer to:
- A person who has insomnia
In music:
- Insomniac (Green Day album), 1995
- Insomniac (Enrique Iglesias album), 2007
- "Insomniac" (song), a 1994 song by Echobelly
- "Insomniac", a song by Billy Pilgrim
- Insomniac, a record label founded by Poets of the Fall
- Insomniac Events, an American tour promoter focusing primarily on electronic music events.
In other media:
- The Insomniac, a 2009 Singaporean film noir
- Insomniac Games, an American video game developer
- Insomniac Press, a Canadian independent book publisher
- Insomniac with Dave Attell, a 2001-04 television series
Insomniac is the eighth studio album, and fourth English-language album, released by Spanish singer Enrique Iglesias. The album was produced by John Shanks, Kristian Lundin, Sean Garrett, Anders Bagge, Jesper Andersen, Mark Taylor, Stargate, and Maratone. It also contains his first collaboration with a rapper, Lil Wayne, as well as a cover of indie band Ringside's "Tired of Being Sorry". This album is said to be different from his prior albums, incorporating a more contemporary pop style. As well as the aforementioned hip hop collaboration, the album also includes elements of R&B and Latin pop. It was released worldwide on 11 June 2007 and in the USA on 12 June 2007.
"Insomniac" is a song by the Britpop band Echobelly. It was released as a single in March 1994 and was included on the band's album, Everyone's Got One. The song, written by Sonya Madan and Glenn Johansson, is primarily about drug abuse.
The single received positive critical reviews and peaked at #47 on the UK music charts. It was featured on the soundtrack for the film Dumb and Dumber.
Usage examples of "insomniac".
Rather, even the insomniacs and dogwalkers and crazies would be staying to the gravel paths near Central Park South and along Lexington Avenue, waiting for the sun to burn off the mist and some of the cold and chase away all the monster they knew dwelled in the dark here.
In this surrogate homeland, which the insomniac saint thinks of as his waiting-room or transit lounge, the central heating is at full blast night and day, and the windows are tightly shut.
Impractical, yet for lack of anything better to do I counted beats the way an insomniac might count sheep.
If this job were ever finished, I wanted to hire out to count sheep for a rich insomniac or, something equally soft.
Of the last group, a goodly number had access to personal computers, and being insomniacs, many of them also knew the e-mail address for the White House.
Astris University authorities tried to keep it from becoming a haven for the homeless, preferring to divert those luckless beings to shelters, but even at night there were usually a few citizens watching the broadcast: insomniacs, natural nocturnals, a few passing the time between night classes, or just those who were unwilling to let the day end.
Lennie said, and produced the platinum money clip with the emeralds, the one given him in gratitude by the Other Woman after he had secured an acquittal for the heir to a pulp mill and timberlands fortune who had shot and killed what he thought was a prowler, but who had turned out to be his insomniac wife.
In wiping out the world's dreams, it reduces us to a state of insomniac unfulfillment: we are dead in effect, but we are compelled like zombies to live through and testify again and again to our death.