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wakeful

/ˈweɪk.fʊl/

wakeful adjective: awake; not sleeping.

Adjective

wakeful (comparative more wakeful, superlative most wakeful)

  1. Awake; not sleeping.
  2. Sleepless.
  3. Vigilant and alert; watchful.
    • “Be wakeful, Beowulf, against our foe.”1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 29

wakeful meaning in Hindi, Urdu and Malayalam

wakeful in Hindi

wakeful
अनिद्र anidra

wakeful in Urdu

wakeful
اندر anidr

wakeful in Malayalam

restless, awake, restive
ജാഗര, ജാഗരക, ജാഗരൂക, ഉണർച്ചയുള്ള, ഉണർന്നിരിക്കുന്ന, നിദ്രാവിഹീനമായ
watchful, alert, vigilant
ഉണർന്നിരിക്കുന്ന, ജാഗരൂകനായ, ജാഗ്രതയുള്ള, ശ്രദ്ധയോടെ കാക്കുന്ന, ജാഗരി, ഉണർവുള്ള

Forms of wakeful

comparativemore wakeful
superlativemost wakeful
alternative formwakefull

Origin of wakeful

From wake + -ful.

Words formed from wakeful

Questions about wakeful

What does wakeful mean?
Wakeful means awake; not sleeping.
What is wakeful in Hindi?
Wakeful in Hindi is अनिद्र (anidra). See Wakeful meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is wakeful?
Wakeful is an adjective.
How do you pronounce wakeful?
Wakeful is pronounced /ˈweɪk.fʊl/.

Words near wakeful in the dictionary

  1. wakefieldite
  2. wakefieldites
  3. wakefields
  4. Wakeford
  5. Wakefords
  6. wakeful
  7. wakefullness
  8. wakefully
  9. wakefulness
  10. wakefulnesses
  11. Wakeland

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: wakeful (page history and authors); अनिद्र (Hindi) (page history and authors); اندر (Urdu) (page history and authors); wakeful (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset 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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