wakeful

The word “wakeful” has 2 syllables: wake-ful

It's pronounced as /ˈweɪk.fəl/


What is synonym and antonym for wakeful?

In the thesaurus, “wakeful” has 31 synonyms and 19 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for wakeful along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for wakeful

  • about
  • alive
  • aroused
  • astir
  • attentive
  • awake
  • awakened
  • aware
  • careful
  • conscious
  • heedful
  • insomniac
  • insomnious
  • observant
  • on guard
  • on the alert
  • on the lookout
  • on the qui vive
  • reawakened
  • revived
  • roused
  • rousted
  • sleepless
  • unsleeping
  • up
  • vigilant
  • wakened
  • waking
  • wary
  • watchful
  • wide-awake

Antonyms for wakeful

  • asleep
  • dormant
  • dozing
  • dozy
  • dreaming
  • drowsy
  • hypnotized
  • mesmerized
  • napping
  • nodding
  • resting
  • sleeping
  • sleepy
  • slumbering
  • slumberous
  • slumbrous
  • somnolent
  • unawakened
  • unaware

Meanings of wakeful

  • adjective
    1. Awake; not sleeping.
    2. Sleepless.
    3. Vigilant and alert; watchful.

Example Sentences

  • Despite her exhaustion, she remained wakeful throughout the night due to anxiety.
  • The baby's teething kept her wakeful for hours on end.
  • The medication had a side effect of making him more wakeful than usual.
  • The watchman's job required him to be wakeful during the graveyard shift.
  • The wakeful hours before dawn allowed her to reflect deeply on her life choices.

On this page you'll find 50 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to wakeful, such as: about, alive, aroused, asleep, astir, attentive, awake.

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Related Words

wakened

  • about
  • agitated
  • alert
  • arising
  • arose
  • aroused
  • astir
  • awake
  • awaked
  • awakened
  • aware
  • awoke
  • bestirred
  • conscious
  • disturbed
  • excited
  • getting up
  • got up
  • insomniac
  • knocked up
  • provoked
  • raised
  • reawakened
  • revived
  • rewaked
  • rewoke
  • rising
  • rolled out
  • rose
  • roused
  • rousted
  • routed
  • shifted
  • sleepless
  • stimulated
  • stirred
  • stirring
  • turned out
  • up
  • uprose
  • waked
  • wakeful
  • watched
  • wide-awake
  • woke

waiting on

  • acute
  • agog
  • aiding
  • alert
  • anticipative
  • anxious
  • apprehensive
  • attending
  • attentive
  • awaiting
  • aware
  • babying
  • breathless
  • cautious
  • circumspect
  • coddling
  • conserving
  • curing
  • doctoring
  • doing for
  • eager
  • expecting
  • guarded
  • healing
  • hopeful
  • hoping
  • humoring
  • in suspense
  • indulging
  • keen
  • looking after
  • looking for
  • looking out for
  • looking to
  • mollycoddling
  • mothering
  • nursing
  • observant
  • on alert
  • on edge
  • on guard
  • on tenterhooks
  • on the ball
  • on the job
  • on the lookout
  • on the qui vive
  • on toes
  • open-eyed
  • pampering
  • prepared
  • preserving
  • raring
  • ready
  • remedying
  • seeing to
  • serving
  • sharp
  • sleepless
  • spoiling
  • supporting
  • taking care of
  • treating
  • unsleeping
  • vigilant
  • waiting
  • wakeful
  • wary
  • watchful
  • wide-awake
  • with bated breath
  • with eyes peeled
  • with weather eye open

observant

  • Argus-eyed
  • absorbed
  • advertent
  • alert
  • alive
  • all ears
  • attentive
  • awake
  • aware
  • bright
  • careful
  • cautious
  • chary
  • clear-sighted
  • cognizant
  • comprehending
  • conscious
  • considering
  • contemplating
  • correct
  • deducing
  • deep
  • detecting
  • discerning
  • discovering
  • discriminating
  • eager
  • eagle-eyed
  • engaged
  • engrossed
  • enthralled
  • focused
  • focussed
  • heedful
  • hyperalert
  • hypervigilant
  • hypnotized
  • immersed
  • intelligent
  • intent
  • intentive
  • interested
  • intrigued
  • involved
  • keen
  • mesmerized
  • mindful
  • not missing a trick
  • obedient
  • observative
  • observing
  • on guard
  • on the alert
  • on the ball
  • on the qui vive
  • on tiptoe
  • open-eyed
  • penetrating
  • perceptive
  • prepared
  • questioning
  • quick
  • rapt
  • ready
  • regardful
  • searching
  • sensitive
  • sharp
  • sharp-eyed
  • sleepless
  • surveying
  • tentie
  • tenty
  • understanding
  • vigilant
  • wakeful
  • wary
  • watchful
  • wide-awake

wake

  • admonish
  • advise
  • aftermath
  • agitate
  • alert
  • apprise
  • arise
  • arouse
  • augur
  • awake
  • awaken
  • backwash
  • bestir
  • bode
  • caution
  • consciousness
  • deathwatch
  • disturb
  • excite
  • forbode
  • forebode
  • forecast
  • foreshadow
  • foretell
  • foretoken
  • forewarn
  • funeral service
  • furrow
  • get up
  • harbinger
  • inform
  • insomnia
  • knock up
  • last rites
  • notify
  • obsequies
  • path
  • portend
  • predict
  • presage
  • prognosticate
  • prophesy
  • provoke
  • raise
  • reawaken
  • revive
  • rewake
  • rise
  • rites
  • roll out
  • rouse
  • roust
  • rout
  • shift
  • sleeplessness
  • stimulate
  • stir
  • track
  • train
  • turn out
  • uprise
  • vigil
  • wakefulness
  • waken
  • warn
  • wash
  • watch
  • wave

about

  • abroad
  • across
  • adjacent
  • afloat
  • after a fashion
  • all but
  • all over
  • almost
  • along
  • alongside
  • any which way
  • anyhow
  • appreciably
  • approximately
  • apropos
  • apropos of
  • around
  • aroused
  • as concerns
  • as far as
  • as for
  • as good as
  • as regards
  • as respects
  • as to
  • astir
  • at
  • athwart
  • awake
  • awakened
  • aware
  • back
  • backward
  • backwards
  • behind
  • beside
  • borderline
  • by
  • by and large
  • chiefly
  • circa
  • concerning
  • conscious
  • counter
  • counterclockwise
  • dealing with
  • down
  • downward
  • downwards
  • encircling
  • everyplace
  • everywhere
  • fair
  • fairly
  • far and wide
  • feckly
  • generally
  • here and there
  • hereabout
  • hereabouts
  • high and low
  • in connection with
  • in general
  • in regard to
  • in relation to
  • in respect to
  • in reverse
  • in the ball park
  • in the neighborhood
  • in view of
  • insomniac
  • just about
  • kind of
  • largely
  • like
  • loosely
  • mainly
  • more or less
  • most
  • mostly
  • much
  • near
  • nearby
  • nearly
  • next door to
  • next to
  • nigh
  • nominally
  • obversely
  • of
  • on
  • over
  • partially
  • partly
  • passim
  • plus or minus
  • practically
  • pretty much
  • pretty nearly
  • rearward
  • rearwards
  • reawakened
  • referring to
  • regarding
  • relative to
  • respecting
  • reversely
  • revived
  • right and left
  • roughly
  • round
  • roused
  • rousted
  • say
  • sleepless
  • some
  • somewhat
  • somewhere
  • somewhere about
  • somewhere around
  • surrounding
  • through
  • throughout
  • touching
  • touching on
  • toward
  • towards
  • ubiquitously
  • up
  • virtually
  • wakeful
  • wakened
  • well-nigh
  • widdershins
  • wide-awake
  • with regard to
  • with respect to
  • withershins
  • within an inch of

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