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wakeful
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wakeful \Wake"ful\, a. Not sleeping; indisposed to sleep; watchful; vigilant.
Dissembling sleep, but wakeful with the fright.
--Dryden.
[1913 Webster] -- Wake"ful*ly, adv. -- Wake"ful*ness, n.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, "diligent," from wake (n.2) + -ful. Related: Wakefully; wakefulness.
Wiktionary
a. 1 awake rather than sleeping 2 sleepless 3 vigilant and alert; watchful
WordNet
adj. carefully observant or attentive; on the lookout for possible danger; "a policy of open-eyed awareness"; "the vigilant eye of the town watch"; "there was a watchful dignity in the room"; "a watchful parent with a toddler in tow" [syn: argus-eyed, open-eyed, vigilant, watchful]
(of sleep) easily disturbed; "in a light doze"; "a light sleeper"; "a restless wakeful night" [syn: light]
Wikipedia
Wakeful was one of the great Thoroughbred mares of the Australian turf. She had shown her versatility by defeating top racehorses at distances from 5½ furlongs to 3 miles. She was unplaced in only three races.
This bay filly was foaled in 1896, and was by the outstanding racehorse and sire, Trenton from Insomnia by Robinson Crusoe. Her pedigree contained mostly good old colonial bloodlines that had proved their worth in Australian racing and breeding. She was offered at the St Aubins stud dispersal sale in 1900 and purchased by Leslie Macdonald for the bargain price of 310 guineas.
To be wakeful is to experience the metabolic state of catabolism.
Wakeful may also refer to:
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HMS Wakeful, the name of two ships of the Royal Navy and one planned one, including:
- HMS Wakeful (R59), a Royal Navy destroyer
- Wakeful (horse), an Australian Thoroughbred racehorse
Usage examples of "wakeful".
He ate with us, but paid the price with pains and bloaty farting which kept him wakeful and miserable all night.
The poor fellow was crimped at the corner by some wakeful sentry and tied up to fight the Grand Duke.
It is a well-established physiological fact, that during the wakeful hours the vital energies are being expended, the powers of life diminished, and, if wakefulness is continued beyond a certain limit, the system becomes enfeebled and death is the result.
Then he limped to that hut vacated by Weamish, and here he passed a wakeful night, by reason of sprains, bruises, and contusions.
He lay for twenty minutes growing gradually wakeful, till he heard the batwoman banging about in the room next to his.
Soon after twelve, having enjoined Annette to be wakeful, and to call her, should any change appear for the worse, Emily sorrowfully bade Madame Montoni good night, and withdrew to her chamber.
And what must I come across on my very first day but a woman who slept not at all and whose wakeful stare - a perpetual, uncourted vigil over all the hours of light and dusk, darkness and dawn - had brought her to madness?
King Alcinous and his queen, Arete, who also lay wakeful in the night.
No, the rides that scared Scott were the smooth downbound ones he took in the middle of his wakeful nights.
Over the whole scene of rickyard, garden, outbuildings, horsepond and orchard, brooded that air which seems rightfully to belong to out-of-the-way farmyards, an air of wakeful dreaminess which suggests that here, man and beast and bird have got up so early that the rest of the world has never caught them up and never will.
If only he could rest. But the dogs panted, wakeful now, smelling death.
Then he limped to that hut vacated by Weamish, and here he passed a wakeful night, by reason of sprains, bruises, and contusions.
The singer's voice died away at last, and Craig imagined all the hundreds of other young men lying in wakeful silence on their sleeping-mats, haunted and saddened by the song as he was.
Back in the condemned cell, McCool was pale and wakeful, but he could still force a smile.
He made a dry camp and sat all night on his blanket, so wakeful he thought he would never sleep again.