ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Unsleep

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Unsleep is a noun meaning Sleeplessness; wakefulness.

Meaning

Sleeplessness; wakefulness.

More Meanings

  1. A sleeplike state that is not true sleep.
  2. To be wakeful.
  3. (intransitive) To awaken; to become wakeful.
  4. (transitive) To cause someone or something to go from a sleeping state to a wakeful one, or to deprive of sleep.

Example Sentences

Deeper than self entirely, made transparent, The dreamer enters unsleep, a new zone, And in so doing, climbs !
In Spain, whenever I recharged, I had descended into a dark blanket of nothingness. The empty unsleep of Echos.
Rather than sleeping the sleep of a very drunk man, I sleep the unsleep of a wizzed out partygoer after a couple of gees too many in the company of Uncle Charles.
In my own way I sleep, without slumber or repose, this vegetative life of imagining, and the distant reflection of the silent street lamps, like the quiet foam of a dirty sea, hovers behind my restless eyebrows. I sleep and unsleep.

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Related dictionary entries include wide-awake, awake, wakelessness, sleeplessness, insomnolence, insomnolency.

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