wakeful

English

Alternative forms

• wakefull (obsolete)

Etymology

From wake +‎ -ful.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

wakeful (comparative more wakeful, superlative most wakeful)

1. Awake; not sleeping.
2. Sleepless.
3. Vigilant and alert; watchful.
   • 1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 29:

     “Be wakeful, Beowulf, against our foe.”

Derived terms

• wakefully
• wakefulness

Translations

awake rather than sleeping — see also awake

• Bulgarian: буден (bg) (buden)
• French: éveillé (fr)
• Hungarian: éber (hu), ébren (hu)
• Latin: vigil (la), exsomnis
• Māori: matatū
• Occitan: espertat
• Portuguese: vígil (pt)
• Turkish:

  Ottoman Turkish: سهران (sehran)

sleepless — see also sleepless

• Belarusian: бяссо́нны (be) (bjassónny)
• Bulgarian: безсънен (bg) (bezsǎnen)
• German: wach (de), schlaflos (de), wachsam (de), aufmerksam (de), unruhig (de), vigilant (de)
• Hungarian: álmatlan (hu)
• Italian: irrequieto (it), smanioso (it), vigile (it), attento (it)
• Latin: evigilans
• Māori: tūrama, tūramarama, whakawhetū
• Norwegian: vaken m
• Polish: bezsenny (pl)
• Portuguese: desperto (pt) m
• Turkish:

  Ottoman Turkish: اویقوسز (uykusuz), سهران (sehran)

• Ukrainian: безсо́нний (uk) (bezsónnyj)

watchful — see also vigilant,‎ watchful

• Bulgarian: бдителен (bg) (bditelen)
• Hungarian: elővigyázatos (hu), éber (hu), észnél van
• Italian: vigile (it)
• Latin: vigil (la)
• Portuguese: vigilante (pt)
• Turkish:

  Ottoman Turkish: سهران (sehran)

• Ukrainian: пи́льний (pýlʹnyj)