Synonyms for wide-awake
- adjective
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Adjective
1. Awake — awake and very alert; vigilant, watchful
awake, alert, broad awake, watchful, vigilant, active, keen, attentive, unsleeping
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Definitions
- adj. 1
Awake and very alert; vigilant, watchful.
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- Other spellings
- wide awake wideawake
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Alert, ready, and wide-awake refer to a watchful promptness for action.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- alert When I saw his face, I was instantly on red alert.
- awake Tom lay awake for a long time thinking about Mary.
- watchful Not a single mistake escaped his watchful gaze.
By length
- 4 letters
- keen1
- 5 letters
- alert2, awake2
- 6 letters
- active2
- 8 letters
- vigilant3, watchful2
- 9 letters
- attentive3
- 10 letters
- unsleeping
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (alert2 = 2 syllables).