Associations to the word «Sleepless»

Wiktionary

SLEEPLESS, adjective. Characterized by an absence of sleep.

Dictionary definition

SLEEPLESS, adjective. Experiencing or accompanied by sleeplessness; "insomniac old people"; "insomniac nights"; "lay sleepless all night"; "twenty watchful, weary, tedious nights"- Shakespeare.
SLEEPLESS, adjective. Always watchful; "to an eye like mine, a lidless watcher of the public weal"- Alfred Tennyson.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats