UNSLEEPING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unsleeping mean? 

• UNSLEEPING (adjective)
  The adjective UNSLEEPING has 1 sense:

1. fully awake

  Familiarity information: UNSLEEPING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNSLEEPING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fully awake

Synonyms:

unsleeping; wide-awake

Context example:

so excited she was wide-awake all night

Similar:

awake (not in a state of sleep; completely conscious)

 Context examples 

I crossed the yard, wherein the constellations looked down upon me, I could have thought, with wonder, the first creature of that sort that their unsleeping vigilance had yet disclosed to them; I stole through the corridors, a stranger in my own house; and coming to my room, I saw for the first time the appearance of Edward Hyde.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)