sleepless

Words with a similar base: sleepless

'sleepless'

[insomniac.s.01] as in: experiencing or accompanied by sleeplessness; ; ; ; - Shakespeare

Examples:
insomniac old people
insomniac nights
lay sleepless all night
twenty watchful, weary, tedious nights

'sleepless'

[lidless.s.02] as in: always watchful; - Alfred Tennyson

Examples:
to an eye like mine, a lidless watcher of the public weal

Origins

					sleepless (English)
├── -less (English)
│   └── -leas (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
│       └── leas (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
└── sleep (English)
    ├── sleep (Middle English (1100-1500))
    │   └── slæp (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
    └── slepen (Middle English (1100-1500))
        └── slæpan (Old English (ca. 450-1100))

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