sleepless

Other forms of sleepless

comparative

sleeplesser·

superlative

sleeplessest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about sleepless

What does sleepless mean?

sleepless means "experiencing or accompanied by sleeplessness". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sleepless?

sleepless has 2 syllables: slee-pless. The stress falls on "slee". In IPA it is /ˈslipləs/.

What is another word for sleepless?

Close synonyms include insomniac, watchful, lidless. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sleepless a common word?

sleepless is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.