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wide awake

wide awake adjective: awake and very alert; vigilant, watchful.

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
    • Why is marking a book indispensable to reading it? First, it keeps you awake—not merely conscious, but wide awake.1972, Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren, How to Read a Book, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 49
    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

wide awake meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam

wide awake in Tamil

கொட்டுக்கொட்டென்று

wide awake in Urdu

چوکنا, ہوشیار, جاگا ہوا

wide awake in Malayalam

sleepless, fully awake, conscious
തികച്ചും ജാഗ്രദവസ്ഥയിലുള്ള, ഉണർന്നിരിക്കുന്ന, ഉറക്കം തെളിഞ്ഞ, ബോധമുള്ള, സുബോധാവസ്ഥയിലുള്ള, ഉറക്കമില്ലാത്ത

Examples of wide awake in a sentence

  • I had been asleep for only two hours, but I was wide awake.1978, Richard Nixon, “The Presidency 1973–1974”, in RN: the Memoirs of Richard Nixon, Grosset & Dunlap, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 1085:
  • I am the teeth that grinds at your bones / As you lie there a failure with your will so weak / I am the ache you feel in your tomb / As you lay in your body still wide awake2025, “Bedlam”, in Hymns in Dissonance, performed by Whitechapel, United States:

Synonyms of wide awake

Antonyms

Forms of wide awake

comparativemore wide awake
superlativemost wide awake
alternative formwide-awake

Words formed from wide awake

Questions about wide awake

What does wide awake mean?
Wide awake means awake and very alert; vigilant, watchful.
What is wide awake in Tamil?
Wide awake in Tamil is கொட்டுக்கொட்டென்று. See Wide awake meaning in Tamil.
How do you use wide awake in a sentence?
I had been asleep for only two hours, but I was wide awake.
What part of speech is wide awake?
Wide awake is an adjective.

Words near wide awake in the dictionary

  1. widduy
  2. widdy
  3. wide
  4. wide area network
  5. wide area networks
  6. wide awake
  7. wide berth
  8. wide berths
  9. wide blue yonder
  10. wide boy
  11. wide boys

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wide awake (page history and authors); wide awake (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); wide awake (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); wide awake (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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