wide-awake

Adjective

wide awake (comparative more wide awake, superlative most wide awake)

1. (idiomatic) Awake and very alert; vigilant, watchful.
   • "They are almost awake, not quite," said Lucy. She knew she herself was wide awake, wider than anyone usually is.1951, C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia

   Synonyms:

   broad awake

2. (figuratively) Keyed in or aware of things; not oblivious; woke.
   • LF 37, F 33, working class backgrounds, left-ish politics, seek wide-awake F 30+ to share friendly, indep apt.1984 April 21, “Classified advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 19

Noun

wideawake (plural wideawakes)

1. A bird, the sooty tern.
2. (historical) A type of hat with a broad brim made of black or brown felt.
   • "He carried his benevolence to the point of coming to meet me at the little station at which I was to alight, and my heart beat very fast as I saw his handsome face, surmounted with a soft wide-awake, and which I knew by a photograph long since enshrined upon my mantel shelf, scanning the carriage...1884, Henry James, "The Author of Beltraffio" in The English Illustrated Magazine 1 (9–10) (June–July 1884).

   Synonyms:

   wideawake hat

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