wide-awake

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 and divides as wi-de--a-wake under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for wide-awake come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.