wide awake
[adjective]
Synonyms: watchful, alert, open-eyed, unsleeping, vigilant, wakeful

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Related Words: alive, awake, aware, conscious, sensible

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wide-awake adjective & noun. ['wʌɪdǝweɪk] Also (as pred. adjective) wide awake [wʌɪd ǝ'weɪk]. E19.
[from WIDE adverb + AWAKE adjective.]
A. adjectival phr.
1. Awake with the eyes wide open; fully awake. Usu. pred. E19.

2. fig. Thoroughly vigilant or alert; sharp-witted, knowing. colloq. (orig. slang). M19.

3. wide-awake hat, a soft felt hat with broad brim and low crown [punningly so named as not having a nap]. M19.
b. noun.
1. A wide-awake hat (see sense A.3 above). M19.

2. The sooty tern, Sterna fuscata, so called from its cry. L19.

■ wide-a'wakeness noun M19.

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wide awake
1.
completely awake and thinking clearly.
My mother came into my bedroom at 7 a.m. and found me wide awake.

2.
completely aware.
You need to be wide awake to the danger of leaving your belongings unattended.

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