wakeful

wakeful

adjective

Definition of WAKEFUL

not sleeping or able to sleep <the mother remained wakeful until her child returned home>

Synonyms awake, insomniac, sleepless, wide-awake

Related Words aroused, awakened, roused, rousted, wakened; about, astir, up; aware, conscious; revived; reawakened

Near Antonyms dozy, drowsy, nodding, sleepy, slumberous (or slumbrous), somnolent; dreaming; hypnotized, mesmerized

Antonyms asleep, dormant, dozing, napping, resting, sleeping, slumbering, unawakened