Word.ws English Dictionary

being awake

being awake is the present participle and gerund of be awake.

Meaning of be awake

Verb

be awake (third-person singular simple present is awake, present participle being awake, simple past was awake, past participle been awake)

  1. To not sleep, to stay awake. (This entry is a translation hub.)

Questions about being awake

What is being awake the present participle and gerund of?
Being awake is the present participle and gerund of be awake.

Words near being awake in the dictionary

  1. being all about
  2. being along
  3. being around
  4. being as
  5. being at the plague
  6. being awake
  7. being bored
  8. being born
  9. being cruel to be kind
  10. being done with
  11. being down with

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: being awake (page history and authors); be awake (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “being awake.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/being_awake. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.