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What is the adjective for sleeplessness?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs sleep, sleeper, sleepe, sleeptalk and sleepwrite which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

sleepy
  1. Tired; feeling the need for sleep.
  2. Suggesting tiredness.
  3. Tending to induce sleep; soporific.
  4. Dull; lazy; heavy; sluggish.
  5. Quiet; without bustle or activity.
  6. Synonyms:
      7. drowsy, lethargic, tired, dozy, languid, languorous, sluggish, somnolent, torpid, comatose, dopey, slumberous, slumbersome, slumbrous, snoozy, yawning, dull, enervated, heavy, inert, nodding, quiescent, slow, yawny, dead, inactive, oscitant, bleary-eyed, draggy, listless, heavy-eyed, asleep on one's feet, weary, fatigued, slothful, exhausted, lazy, lifeless, indolent, limp, idle, stagnant, apathetic, leaden, passive, pooped, supine, spent, slack, phlegmatic … more
  7. Examples:
      8. “Allergies can sometimes make people sleepy as well as sneezy.”
      “Thomas felt revitalized from the sleepy effect of the mushrooms.”
      “My destination was the sleepy town of Ross, where the few residents mostly just stayed indoors for most of the day.”
asleep
  1. In a state of sleep; also, broadly, resting.
  2. (slang) Inattentive.
  3. (of a body part) Having a numb or prickling sensation accompanied by a degree of unresponsiveness.
  4. (euphemistic) dead
  5. Synonyms:
      6. sleeping, napping, slumbering, dozing, dormant, snoozing, resting, reposing, hibernating, comatose, catnapping, drowsing, kipping, unconscious, dreaming, snoring, somnolent, conked, crashed, inactive, inert, out, sound asleep, fast asleep, crashed out, out for the count, having forty winks, flaked out, getting shut-eye, in repose, out cold, out like a light, flat-out, in dreamland, sacked out, dead to the world, in a deep sleep, taking forty winks, out of it, catching some zzz's, on the kip, in the land of Nod, in the arms of Morpheus, soporous, soporose, at rest, soundly asleep, sleeping like a baby, zonked out, supine … more
  6. Examples:
      7. “I fell asleep on the train from Victoria to Brighton the other evening.”
      “I would have been able to get out faster than I eventually did, but my whole left leg had fallen asleep.”
      “His family will suffer for it when he is asleep in his grave.”
sleepbound
  1. (poetic) asleep
  2. (poetic) sleepy (Can we add an example for this sense?)
sleeping
  1. Asleep.
  2. Used for sleep; used to produce sleep.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. asleep, hibernating, dozing, napping, resting, slumbering, dormant, reposing, snoozing, unconscious, abed, catnapping, dreaming, snoring, somnolent, comatose, conked, crashed, drowsing, inactive, inert, kipping, lounging, out, relaxing, unwinding, fast asleep, sound asleep, conked out, having forty winks, dead to the world, in a deep sleep, sleeping like a baby, sleeping like a log, at rest, flaked out, getting shut-eye, in repose, out cold, out like a light, crashed out, in dreamland, lying down, sacked out, stretched out, taking forty winks, out for the count, out of it, catching some zzz's, in the land of Nod … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “The sleeping children were all stacked up on a straw-stuffed mattress in one corner.”
      “Every night, in these United States, more than six million sleeping tablets are required to put the American people to sleep.”
      “Our latest project hopes to harness the country's sleeping talent in developing technologies for the future.”
sleepless
  1. Characterized by an absence of sleep.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. wakeful, insomniac, restless, awake, unsleeping, insomnolent, watchful, alert, disturbed, unsettled, vigilant, active, antsy, anxious, attentive, edgy, fidgeting, fidgety, jumpy, troubled, wired, wide awake, wide-awake, without sleep, tossing and turning, on edge, strung out, open-eyed … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “It'll be a year of hard work and disillusionment, of sleepless nights and endless days.”
      “After a sleepless night, I managed to reach her in the morning and she confirmed that I was about to be sacked.”
      “A person who snores is often an object of ridicule and causes sleepless nights for others.”
sleepful
  1. (archaic) Strongly inclined to sleep; very sleepy
  2. Examples:
      3. “If you had been there You'd have seen us locked together Under the chaperone's sleepful eyes Like the sun in the arms of the moon Or a panting gazelle in the clasp of a lion.”
      “The company has worked with sponsors such as Uber, IZZE, Treehouse, Health in Reach and Sleepful Nights.”
sleeplike
  1. Resembling sleep or some aspect of it.
  2. Examples:
      3. “He was then able to see clearly, and for the first time he looked down at his best friend and saw him in a sleeplike state.”
      “He wrote up three cases of patients with this type of stroke and their sleeplike behavior for the medical literature nearly 20 years ago.”
      “Hypnosis is a sleeplike and passive state that is nevertheless attentive and concentrated.”
sleepish
  1. sleepy; drowsy
asleepe
  1. Archaic spelling of asleep.
sleepable
  1. Suitable for sleeping.
  2. Examples:
      3. “It is cool here, or at least sleepable, but Baghdad, I am told, is different. I was advised to do my sleeping in advance.”
      “The saloon includes long, sleepable settees and a fold-out table.”
      “Once we reach the airport the players dump their bags at the American Airlines counter and hasten to the departure gate to secure the most sleepable spaces.”
sleeperless
  1. Without sleepers.
sleepier
  1. comparative form of sleepy: more sleepy
  2. Synonyms:
      3. drowsier, dozier, sluggisher, snoozier, duller, heavier, slower, yawnier, deader, draggier, more lethargic, more tired, more languid, more languorous, more somnolent, more torpid, more comatose, more dopey, more slumberous, more slumbersome, more slumbrous, more yawning, more enervated, more inert, more quiescent, more inactive, more oscitant, more bleary-eyed, more listless, more soporific, more somniferous, more hypnotic, more narcotic, more sedative, more somnific, more calmative, more anaesthetic, more anesthetic, more hypnagogic, quieter, peacefuller, boringer, more slow-moving, tranquiler … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “While sleeping for several hours can leave you feeling even sleepier, a short power nap of no more than 30 minutes should revitalize you.”
      “The large ski resorts are behind you, the villages get smaller and sleepier.”
      “Whizzy hedge funds used to dominate the market, but sleepier asset managers are investing in growing numbers.”
sleepiest
  1. superlative form of sleepy: most sleepy
  2. Synonyms:
      3. drowsiest, doziest, sluggishest, snooziest, dullest, heaviest, slowest, yawniest, deadest, draggiest, most lethargic, most tired, most languid, most languorous, most somnolent, most torpid, most comatose, most dopey, most slumberous, most slumbersome, most slumbrous, most yawning, most enervated, most inert, most quiescent, most inactive, most oscitant, most bleary-eyed, most listless, most soporific, most somniferous, most hypnotic, most narcotic, most sedative, most somnific, most calmative, most anaesthetic, most anesthetic, most hypnagogic, quietest, peacefullest, boringest, most slow-moving, tranquilest … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Losing to the sleepiest of the Swedes, he obstreperously slammed down his racket and curdlingly called out to the sky.”
      “In our jaded post-Lance Armstrong world, even the sleepiest sports are not immune to the vigilance of the United States Anti-Doping Agency.”
      “An innocuous grassy lane, no more than three metres wide, makes for one of the world's sleepiest borders.”
slept
  1. simple past tense and past participle of sleep
  2. Synonyms:
      3. slumbered, dozed, napped, rested, kipped, reposed, snoozed, catnapped, drowsed, siestaed, dossed, overslept, relaxed, flopped, yawned, bunked, dreamed, dreamt, nodded, snored, zizzed, retired, crashed, hibernated, zzzed, bedded down, conked out, dossed down, caught some zs, dozed off, drifted off, dropped off, fell asleep, fallen asleep, had a lie-down, fell out, fallen out, nodded off, sacked out, sawed wood, slept lightly, turned in, zonked out, caught a wink, copped some z's, got some kip, got some zizz, had a kip, had a siesta, had a snooze … more
sleeped
  1. (nonstandard) simple past tense and past participle of sleep
sleeptalked
  1. simple past tense and past participle of sleeptalk
sleeptalking
  1. present participle of sleeptalk
sleepwritten
  1. past participle of sleepwrite
sleepwriting
  1. present participle of sleepwrite
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