UNAWAKENED Synonyms: 30 Similar and Opposite Words

unawakened

adjective

Definition of unawakened

as in sleeping

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Adjective

An autopsy showed that the infant died from asphyxiation secondary to a co-sleeping/overlay event with an unsafe sleeping environment.

— Laura Bauer, Kansas City Star, 26 Feb. 2026

Definition of sleeping

Adjective

Former SpaceX engineers think a long-dormant nuclear reactor experiment is key to meeting the power needs of data centers.

— Evan Halper, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2026
Hawaii, meanwhile, rightfully earns its place thanks to its dramatic terrain, with 25 active and dormant volcanoes—the most of any state in the study—as well as 543 waterfalls and Mauna Kea, one of the tallest mountain summits in the country.

— Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of dormant

Adjective

That’s because when the body experiences physical stress, including losing weight quickly, more hairs can shift into a resting phase and fall out a few months later — typically two to three months after the event, Rossi explains.

— Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 17 Feb. 2026
This is a condition where, due to stress or hormonal changes, the body puts the hair follicles into a resting phase.

— Essence, Essence, 19 Dec. 2025

Definition of resting

Adjective

The fireworks came instead from the Dodgers' slumbering offense, which awoke with Max Muncy's three-run double and Freddie Freeman's RBI single after Skubal departed.

— ABC News, ABC News, 11 Aug. 2026
The first murder is a girl slicing into her slumbering mother’s neck with a hacksaw; then her brother pounds his father’s face in with a baseball bat.

— Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of slumbering

Adjective

Allergy drugs can ease those symptoms and make people drowsy, potentially offering relief from insomnia.

— Kara Smythe, EverydayHealth.com, 15 May 2026
Fleets that deployed the company's AI dash cams, which detect drowsy or distracted driving, saw a 73% reduction in accidents after 30 months, according to company data from more than 2,600 customers.

— TIME Contributors, Time, 29 Apr. 2026

Definition of drowsy

Adjective

Sheik’s passion to depict Somalia through a Somali lens plus older generation fecklessness shines through as Amini leaves her somnolent village to find sis Barni, 9, in a big city.

— John Hopewell, Variety, 5 Aug. 2026
Which is why this opinion piece speculates that the spending effect of growth in the form of high demand for all things Swift and World Cup is a relative growth somnolent as opposed to an instigator.

— John Tamny, Forbes.com, 20 June 2026

Definition of somnolent

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