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insomniac
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1877 (adj.); 1879 (n.), from insomnia .
WordNet
Word definitions in 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
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" 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 ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Suffering from or pertaining to insomnia. n. One who suffers an inability or difficulty sleeping; a sufferer from insomnia.
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.