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half-awake

half-awake adjective: barely awake.

Adjective

half-awake (not comparable)

  1. Barely awake.

Origin of half-awake

From half- + awake.

Questions about half-awake

What does half-awake mean?
Half-awake means barely awake.
What part of speech is half-awake?
Half-awake is an adjective.

Words near half-awake in the dictionary

  1. half-assedly
  2. half-assedness
  3. half-assery
  4. half-asses
  5. half-assing
  6. half-awake
  7. half-back
  8. half-backs
  9. half-baked
  10. half-bakedness
  11. half-bakeds

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