wide-awake

1. 1.

   fully awake

   “the unsleeping city”

   “so excited she was wide-awake all night”

   Synonymsunsleeping

   Similarawake
2. 2.

   fully alert and watchful

   “played heads-up ball”

   Synonymsheads-up

   Similaralert

Questions about wide-awake

What does wide-awake mean?

wide-awake means "fully awake". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in wide-awake?

wide-awake has 4 syllables: wi-de--a-wake. The stress falls on "de-".

What is another word for wide-awake?

Close synonyms include unsleeping, heads-up. 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 wide-awake a common word?

wide-awake is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.