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wide-awake

[wahyd-uh-weyk]

adjective

  1. fully awake; with the eyes wide open.

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  2. alert, keen, or knowing.

    a wide-awake young woman.

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noun

  1. Also called wide-awake hat.a soft, low-crowned felt hat.

  2. the sooty tern.

wide-awake

adjective

  1. fully awake

  2. keen, alert, or observant

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. Also called: wide-awake hat.a hat with a low crown and very wide brim

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • wide-awakeness noun
  • ˈɾ-ˈɲԱ noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of wide-awake1

First recorded in 1810–20
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Idioms and Phrases

Fully awake; also, very alert. For example, He lay there, wide awake, unable to sleep, or She was wide awake to all the possibilities. The wide in this idiom alludes to the eyes being wide open. [Early 1800s]
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The combination of being nocturnal and being bombarded with sight and sound kept me wide-awake.

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All that suggests that the case will keep jurors wide-awake during the six or so weeks it is projected to take.

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She does provide intricate detail about, for instance, how the station’s drinking water gets recycled from everyone’s urine, or how “the wide-awake, always-awake station vibrates with fans and filters.”

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I’m grateful to have seen it in a theater, which it absolutely deserves; audiences planning to stream it at home should know that it demands and rewards wide-awake attention.

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As long as I am wide-awake, I’ll only hear the stories he reads out loud.

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