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Definition: Unsleeping |
UnsleepingAdjective1. Fully awake; "the unsleeping city"; "so excited she was wide-awake all night". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "unsleeping" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1663. (references) |
Synonym: UnsleepingSynonym: wide-awake (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Activity | Industrious, assiduous, diligent, sedulous, notable, painstaking; intent; (attention); indefatigable; (persevering) a; unwearied; unsleeping, never tired; plodding, hard-working; businesslike, workaday. |
Perseverance | Adjective: persevering, constant; steady, steadfast; undeviating, unwavering, unfaltering, unswerving, unflinching, unsleeping, unflagging, undrooping; steady as time; unrelenting, |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Unsleeping |
| English words defined with "unsleeping": wide-awake. (references) |
| "Unsleeping" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unsleeping" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "unsleeping"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | që nuk dremitet. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | буден (alert, alive, awake, sleepless, wakeful, waking), бдителен (alert, awake, hawk-eyed, jealous, observant, open-eyed, unwinking, vigilant, wakeful, waking, wary, watchful, wide awake). (various references) | |
Czech | bdìlý (alert, vigilant, watchful, wide awake). (various references) | |
Hungarian | éber (alert, awake, sleepless, to be wide awake, to keep the eyes peeled, vigilant, wakeful, watchful, wide awake). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eepingunslay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | vigilante (acock, argus-eyed, awake, hawk-eyed, observant, on the alert, open-eyed, pop-eyed, unwinking, vigilant, wakeful, waking, watchful), que não dorme. (various references) | |
Russian | недремлющий. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | koji stalno motri, koji ne spava, budan (argus-eyed, awake, sleepless, vigilant, wakeful, ware, watchful). (various references) | |
Spanish | vigilante (alert, caretaker, keeper, observant, overlooker, Proctor, superintendent, vigilant, wakeful, watchful), despierto (alert, awake, wakeful). (various references) | |
Turkish | uyumayan, uykusuz (sleepless, wakeful). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | невсипущий (wakeful). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thức (article, sleepless, thing, wide awake), tỉnh tỉnh táo, không ngủ (sleepless, watchful), cnh giác. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Unsleeping" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: unbleeding. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-g-i-l-n-n-p-s-u" | |
-2 letters: ingenues, peelings, penguins, pinnules, sleeping, speeling, unseeing. | |
-3 letters: engines, ensuing, genuine, gunnels, gunnies, ingenue, lensing, lineups, lungees, lupines, peeling, peening, penguin, pennies, pensile, pinenes, pinnule, plunges, pulings, pulsing, pungles, seeling, seeping, spiegel, spinule, unpiles, unsling. | |
-4 letters: engine, enisle, ennuis, ensign, ensile, genies, genips, genius, guiles, gunnel, gunsel, ingles, lieges, linens, lineup, lungee, lunges. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-g-i-l-n-n-p-s-u" | |
+3 letters: supplementing. | |
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