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Synonyms for wakeful


Grammar : Adj
Spell : weyk-fuhl
Phonetic Transcription : ˈweɪk fəl

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Définition of wakeful

  • adj alert, restless
Example sentences :
  • He fell asleep, after a long, wakeful night, and did not hear the maid who called him.
  • Extract from : « Changing Winds » by St. John G. Ervine
  • The commandant passed a wakeful night and arrived early at his office.
  • Extract from : « A Nest of Spies » by Pierre Souvestre
  • That, too, he had been considering during the wakeful hours of that summer night.
  • Extract from : « The Lion's Skin » by Rafael Sabatini
  • Twould be the worse for me (said he) an he caught me wakeful when he turned in.
  • Extract from : « The Cruise of the Shining Light » by Norman Duncan
  • Wakeful birds deceived by the moon piped softly and were silent.
  • Extract from : « The Vagrant Duke » by George Gibbs
  • No, it was not the story he had listened to which kept him wakeful.
  • Extract from : « The Golden Woman » by Ridgwell Cullum
  • The conditions were such as to make one wakeful and alert, if anything could.
  • Extract from : « Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman » by J. H. (James Harvey) Kidd
  • By her presence she had sanctified it and made of it a shrine for his meditative and wakeful hours.
  • Extract from : « The Harbor of Doubt » by Frank Williams
  • And the dream was lovely as dream needs be, but not lovelier than the wakeful night.
  • Extract from : « Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, August 1877 » by Various
  • The child, tired, but wakeful, stood at the door in fear of the dog.
  • Extract from : « Despair's Last Journey » by David Christie Murray

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