unslept
English
Adjective
unslept (not comparable)
- 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.
- 2011, Donvé Lee, An Intimate War (page 116)
- 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.
- 1957, Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
- (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, […]
- 1870, Geoffrey Chaucer, David Laing Purves, Edmund Spenser, The Canterbury tales and Faerie Queene:
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