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Antonyms for asleep
əˈslipasleep

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Wiktionary4.5 / 2 votes

  1. asleepadjective

    Antonyms:
    awake

  2. asleepadjective

    Antonyms:
    awake

  3. asleepadjective

    How could you miss that? Were you asleep?

    Antonyms:
    awake

  4. asleepadjective

    My arm fell asleep. You know, like pins and needles.

    Antonyms:
    awake

  5. asleepadjective

    Antonyms:
    awake

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. asleep(p)adjective

    in a state of sleep

    "were all asleep when the phone rang"; "fell asleep at the wheel"

    Antonyms:
    live, sensible, alive(p), sensitive

  2. asleep(p), benumbed, numbadjective

    lacking sensation

    "my foot is asleep"; "numb with cold"

    Antonyms:
    sensible, live, alive(p), sensitive

  3. asleep(p), at peace(p), at rest(p), deceased, departed, goneadverb

    dead

    "he is deceased"; "our dear departed friend"

    Antonyms:
    alive(p), sensible, sensitive, live

  4. asleepadverb

    into a sleeping state

    "he fell asleep"

    Antonyms:
    alive(p), sensitive, sensible, live

  5. asleepadverb

    in the sleep of death

    Antonyms:
    sensible, live, alive(p), sensitive

How to use asleep in a sentence?

  1. Brett Favre:

    The crazy thing was, I ’m not a night owl. Without pills I ’d fall asleep at 9:30. But with pills, I could get so much done, I just figured, ‘ This is awesome. ’ Little did I know [ fiance and now wife ] Deanna would be finding some of my pills and when she did, she ’d flush them down the toilet.

  2. Amy Schumer:

    ‘ If she’s asleep, that’s a no,'.

  3. L.F. Magister:

    Attitude is a virtue of those who live reality. For everything else, they would do better to remain asleep, dreaming.

  4. Rebecca Robbins:

    We found a strong association between frequent difficulty falling asleep and nighttime awakenings and dementia and early death from any cause, even after we controlled for things like depression, sex, income, education and chronic conditions.

  5. Elon Musk:

    We would think it is safe for somebody to essentially fall asleep and wake up at their destination ? Probably towards the end of next year, that is when I think it would most likely be safe enough for that.

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Words popularity by usage frequency

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#461live
#3826sensitive
#11647asleep
#12564sensible
#13247awake

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