WIDE-AWAKE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wide-awake mean? 

• WIDE-AWAKE (adjective)
  The adjective WIDE-AWAKE has 2 senses:

1. fully awake

2. fully alert and watchful

  Familiarity information: WIDE-AWAKE used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WIDE-AWAKE (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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Fully alert and watchful

Synonyms:

heads-up; wide-awake

Context example:

played heads-up ball

Similar:

alert; watchful (engaged in or accustomed to close observation)

 Context examples 

"Here's a landscape!" thought Laurie, peeping through the bushes, and looking wide-awake and good-natured already.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He was well but quietly dressed in a dark-grey suit, and carried a brown wide-awake in his hand.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But the lecture began to take effect, for there was a wide-awake sparkle in his eyes now and a half-angry, half-injured expression replaced the former indifference.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

So poor Meg sang and rocked, told stories and tried every sleep-prevoking wile she could devise, but all in vain, the big eyes wouldn't shut, and long after Daisy had gone to byelow, like the chubby little bunch of good nature she was, naughty Demi lay staring at the light, with the most discouragingly wide-awake expression of countenance.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)