unslept

Adjective

unslept (not comparable)

1. Not having been slept.
   • As you stagger in, your eyes struggling to focus, your throat claggy with sleep unslept, you might expect it to be more or less deserted, save for the odd bomb-disposal squad blowing up someone's lost suitcase.2010, Marcus Berkmann, Zimmer Men: The Trials and Tribulations of the Ageing Cricketer
   • And in the midst of the mirror-like stillness through which it was impossible to see the great machineries grinding, my mother, the brand-new Amina Sinai, who also looked still and unchanging although great things were happening beneath her skin, woke up one morning with a head buzzing with...2011, Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children, pages 82 - 83
2. Not having been slept (in, on, with, etc.); usually with a preposition.
   • The high-tension wires were lightning held forever, blazing, a threat above the unslept houses.1957, Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
   • Tom's room was empty, the bed unslept in.1972, Monica Dickens, World's End in Winter
3. Not having slept; sleep-deprived.
   • Dawn of a new day, me unslept from the old, a refugee from the night.2010, Aidan Chambers, The Toll Bridge
   • Hollow-eyed, unslept and unshaven, I was by no means my usual neatly groomed self when the following day Virgilio, my friend in the carabinieri, arranged for a helicopter to fly me over the scene.2012, James Hamilton-Paterson, Rancid Pansies