unslept

English

Etymology

un- + slept

Adjective

unslept (not comparable)

  1. Not having been slept.
    • 2011, Donvé Lee, An Intimate War (page 116)
      My eyes burn from sleep unslept and from tears unshed. I long for oblivion. I am impossibly tired.
  2. Not having been slept (in, on, with, etc.); usually with a preposition.
    • 1957, Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
      The high-tension wires were lightning held forever, blazing, a threat above the unslept houses.
    • 1972, Monica Dickens, World's End in Winter
      Tom's room was empty, the bed unslept in.
  3. (obsolete) Not having slept; sleepless.
    • 1870, Geoffrey Chaucer, David Laing Purves, Edmund Spenser, The Canterbury tales and Faerie Queene:
      [] With visage and eyes all forwept, / And pale, as a man long unslept, []

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