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wide-awake
[ wahyd-uh-weyk ]
adjective
- fully awake; with the eyes wide open.
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Antonyms: , , , , , ,
- alert, keen, or knowing:
a wide-awake young woman.
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noun
- Also called wide-awake hat. a soft, low-crowned felt hat.
- the sooty tern.
wide-awake
adjective
- fully awake
- keen, alert, or observant
noun
- Also calledwide-awake hat a hat with a low crown and very wide brim
Derived Forms
- ˈɾ-ˈɲԱ, noun
Other 51Թ Forms
- ɾ-·ɲn noun
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of wide-awake1
Idioms and Phrases
Fully awake; also, very alert. For example, He lay there, wide awake, unable to sleep , or She was wide awake to all the possibilities . The wide in this idiom alludes to the eyes being wide open. [Early 1800s]Example Sentences
The combination of being nocturnal and being bombarded with sight and sound kept me wide-awake.
All that suggests that the case will keep jurors wide-awake during the six or so weeks it is projected to take.
She does provide intricate detail about, for instance, how the station’s drinking water gets recycled from everyone’s urine, or how “the wide-awake, always-awake station vibrates with fans and filters.”
I’m grateful to have seen it in a theater, which it absolutely deserves; audiences planning to stream it at home should know that it demands and rewards wide-awake attention.
As long as I am wide-awake, I’ll only hear the stories he reads out loud.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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