wide awake en · ADJ
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(idiomatic) Awake and very alert; vigilant, watchful.
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 awake
2025, “Bedlam”, in Hymns in Dissonance, performed by Whitechapel, United States:I woke with a start. With the blackout curtains closed I didn't know what time it was. I looked at my watch. It said four o'clock. 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:"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:
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(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:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| wide-awake | alternative | lexicographic | |
| more wide awake | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most wide awake | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |
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la pervigil (awake and very alert) · es bien despierto (awake and very alert) · pl uważny (awake and very alert) · ga lánmhúscailte (awake and very alert) · cmn 完全清醒 (awake and very alert) · is glaðvakandi (awake and very alert) · nb lys våken (awake and very alert) · da lysvågen (awake and very alert) · sv klarvaken (awake and very alert) · fi täysin hereillä (awake and very alert) · pl czujny (awake and very alert) · es completamente despierto (awake and very alert) · de hellwach (awake and very alert) · nl klaarwakker (awake and very alert) · ru вполне́ очну́вшись от сна (awake and very alert) · am ንቁ (awake and very alert)