ROUSTED Synonyms: 51 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

as in awakened

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rousted

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verb

past tense of roust

as in woke

to force (someone or something) to move from a place The soldiers were rousted from their beds before sunrise.

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Adjective

Angine desperately returns to the store, again and again, to get her fix from Malaise, her face reddening from blood just below the surface, a canvas of her awakened desire.

— The New Yorker, New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2025

Definition of awakened

Adjective

Like most expectant parents, Briana Faucette heard the typical warnings about sleepless nights.

— Roni Robbins, AJC.com, 20 July 2026
No, special teams coach Dave Toub shouldn’t spend sleepless nights scheming up how to improve his team’s field-goal defense for next season.

— Jesse Newell, New York Times, 15 July 2026

Definition of sleepless

Verb

Around three in the morning, after the evening Kenzo had died, the woman had suddenly woken up, having been roused by the sound of water coming from the house next door.

— Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 4 Aug. 2026
One by one, as if roused from a trance, my fellow staffers rose from their workstations and filed to the exit.

— Danny Heitman, Christian Science Monitor, 31 July 2026

Definition of roused

Adjective

The Galaxy Watch 9 gives you a sleep score each morning, based on your sleep duration, deep sleep, REM sleep, time awake, and sleep latency.

— Andrew Gebhart, PC Magazine, 5 Aug. 2026
The brain then jolts the body awake to restart breathing, and the cycle can repeat 5 to 100 times an hour.

— Hanna Wickes, Kansas City Star, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of awake

Adjective

Low to medium doses show a reduction in the alpha frequency of brain waves (which correspond to relaxed and wakeful states), along with rising entropy, a signature finding of sober brains sinking deeper into a trip.

— Oshan Jarow, Vox, 4 Nov. 2024
Having the right pillow can make a big difference between a peaceful night’s sleep and a restless, wakeful one.

— Casey Clark, Peoplemag, 9 Sep. 2024

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