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sleepless

Syllables: sleep·less/ˈsliːpləs/

sleepless adjective: characterized by an absence of sleep: wakeful.

Adjective

sleepless (comparative more sleepless, superlative most sleepless)

  1. Characterized by an absence of sleep: wakeful.
    • I spent a sleepless night worrying about the exams.

sleepless meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

sleepless in Hindi

absence of sleep
उन्निद्र unnidra, अनिद्रा anidrā

sleepless in Tamil

சிவராத்திரி

sleepless in Marathi

निद्राहीन

sleepless in Urdu

sleepless
اندر anidr
More languagesFewer languages
sleepless in Bengali
নিদ্রাহীন, বিনিদ্র
sleepless in Telugu
నిద్రలేనిది
sleepless in Malayalam
ഉറക്കമിളച്ച, ഉറക്കമില്ലാത്ത, ഉറക്കംവരാത്ത, സ്വസ്ഥതയില്ലാത്ത
sleepless in Kannada
ಅನಿಶ
sleepless in Odia
ନିଦ୍ରାହୀନ, ନିଦହୀନ
sleepless in Nepali
निद्राहीन, निद्राविहीन
sleepless in Tagalog
puyat

Examples of sleepless in a sentence

  • If you decide to stay the course and finish engineering school, it will mean long hours and sleepless nights.
  • The poetic voice describes how, sleepless with lovesickness, he goes to the chapel, seeking respite.
  • She would have spent sleepless nights, smoking, worrying—and she would have lost her nerve.

All 10 example sentences with sleepless

Antonyms of sleepless

Forms of sleepless

comparativemore sleepless
superlativemost sleepless

Origin of sleepless

From Middle English slepeles, from Old English slǣplēas; equivalent to sleep + -less.

Words formed from sleepless

Phrases with sleepless

Questions about sleepless

What does sleepless mean?
Sleepless means characterized by an absence of sleep: wakeful.
What is sleepless in Hindi?
Sleepless in Hindi is उन्निद्र (unnidra), अनिद्रा (anidrā). See Sleepless meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is sleepless?
Sleepless is an adjective.
How do you pronounce sleepless?
Sleepless is pronounced /ˈsliːpləs/.

Words near sleepless in the dictionary

  1. sleepingly
  2. sleepings
  3. sleepingwear
  4. sleepiphany
  5. sleepish
  6. sleepless
  7. sleeplessly
  8. sleeplessness
  9. sleeplessnesses
  10. sleeplike
  11. sleepmarch

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sleepless (page history and authors); sleepless (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sleepless (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); اندر (Urdu) (page history and authors); sleepless (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sleepless (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sleepless (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sleepless (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sleepless (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sleepless (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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.

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