Antonyms for wide awakewide awake

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1. wide awakeadjective

   Synonyms:
   broad awake

2. wide awakeadjective

   awake and very alert

   Synonyms:
   broad awake

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1. wide awake

   Active refers to both quickness and constancy of action; in the former sense it is allied with agile, alert, brisk, etc.; in the latter, with busy, diligent, industrious. The active love employment, the busy are actually employed, the diligent and the industrious are habitually busy. The restless are active from inability to keep quiet; their activity may be without purpose, or out of all proportion to the purpose contemplated. The officious are undesirably active in the affairs of others. Compare ALERT; ALIVE; MEDDLESOME.

   Antonyms:
   dull, heavy, idle, inactive, indolent, inert, lazy, quiescent, quiet, slow, sluggish, stupid

   Synonyms:
   active, agile, alert, brisk, bustling, busy, diligent, energetic, expeditious, industrious, lively, mobile, nimble, officious, prompt, quick, ready, restless, sprightly, spry, supple, vigorous

   Preposition:
   Active in work, in a cause; for an object, as for justice; with persons or instrumentalities; about something, as about other people's business.

How to use wide awake in a sentence?

1. Roger Babson:

   It takes a person who is wide awake to make his dream come true.

2. Octavio Paz:

   Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.

3. Frank Shutts:

   One very important ingredient of success is a good, wide-awake, persistent, tireless enemy.

4. Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi:

   Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.

5. Anonymous:

   Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day.

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