Usually means: Fully alert, conscious, and attentive.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word wide awake:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. wide-awake: Merriam-Webster
  2. wide-awake, wide awake: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. wide-awake: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. wide-awake, wide-awake, wide awake: Collins English Dictionary
  5. wide-awake: Vocabulary.com
  6. Wide-Awake, Wide-awake, wide-awake: Wordnik
  7. wide-awake, wide awake: Wiktionary
  8. wide-awake: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. wide-awake: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. wide-awake: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. wide-awake, wide awake: Dictionary.com
  12. Wide Awake (Audioslave song), Wide Awake (Eric Saade song), Wide Awake (Frazier Chorus album), Wide Awake (Joe McElderry album), Wide Awake (Katy Perry song), Wide Awake (Parachute album), Wide Awake (Picture Me Broken album), Wide Awake (disambiguation), Wide Awake (magazine), Wide Awake (novel), Wide Awake (song), Wide Awake, Wide Awake: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Wide-awake: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. wide-awake: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. wide-awake: Rhymezone
  16. Wide-awake: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. WIDE AWAKE: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  18. Wide-awake: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  19. wide-awake: FreeDictionary.org
  20. wide-awake: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. wide-awake: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wide-awake, wide awake: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wide awake: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (wide awake)

▸ adjective:  (idiomatic) awake and very alert; vigilant, watchful
▸ adjective:  (figurative) keyed in or aware of things; not oblivious; woke.

Similar:
alert, heads-up, awake, unsleeping, broad awake, unwinking, all eyes, ever-watchful, all eyes and ears, on guard, more...

Opposite:
asleep, sleeping

Types:
energetic, vigilant, alert, attentive, more...

Phrases:
wide awake hat, Wide Awake in America, Wide Awake in Dreamland, Wide Awake in Europe, Wide Awake Club, more...

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Similar:
alert, heads-up, awake, unsleeping, broad awake, unwinking, all eyes, ever-watchful, all eyes and ears, on guard, more...

Opposite:
asleep, sleeping

Types:
energetic, vigilant, alert, attentive, more...

Phrases:
wide awake hat, Wide Awake in America, Wide Awake in Dreamland, Wide Awake in Europe, Wide Awake Club, more...



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