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antisleep

antisleep adjective: countering sleep.

Adjective

antisleep (not comparable)

  1. Countering sleep.
    • In answer to his inquiry about the nature of the problem, the Major indicated that Ward had been working irregular hours at the installation and had been sleeping very little, keeping himself awake with coffee and antisleep pills.1973, Norman D. Sundberg, Leona Elizabeth Tyler, Julian R. Taplin, Clinical psychology; expanding horizons

Origin of antisleep

From anti- + sleep.

Questions about antisleep

What does antisleep mean?
Antisleep means countering sleep.
What part of speech is antisleep?
Antisleep is an adjective.

Words near antisleep in the dictionary

  1. antislaveryism
  2. antislavic
  3. antislavism
  4. antislavist
  5. antislavists
  6. antisleep
  7. antislepton
  8. antisleptons
  9. antislime
  10. antislip
  11. antislippage

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