Definitions

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  • adjective Not sleepy; wakeful.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ sleepy

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Examples

  • So I wound up going to bed around 2 am because I Knew I Really Should, and then lying there unsleepy while the cat tried to suffocate me for an hour or so before I finally dropped off.

    we are not monsters. we're moral people. coffeeem 2007

  • ALL of you unsleepy, when, as is well known, ten o'clock is your regular bed-time?

    What Every Woman Knows 1898

  • He is trim, strikingly handsome, in a dark blue suit and black cowboy boots, and looks mysteriously unsleepy, despite having just flown in from a three-day trip to China.

    Chinalyst - China blogs in English 2009

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