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Word Meanings - WAKEFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not sleeping; indisposed to sleep; watchful; vigilant. Dissembling sleep, but wakeful with the fright. Dryden. -- Wake"ful*ly, adv. -- Wake"ful*ness, n.

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  • LIVELY
    1. Endowed with or manifesting life; living. Chaplets of gold and silver resembling lively flowers and leaves. Holland. 2. Brisk; vivacious; active; as, a lively youth. But wherefore comes old Manoa in such haste, With youthful steps Much livelier
  • PROMPT-BOOK
    The book used by a prompter of a theater.
  • CIRCUMSPECTNESS
    Vigilance un guarding against evil from every quarter; caution. forces circumspectness on those abroad, who at home are nursed in security. Sir H. Wotton.
  • WATCHET
    Pale or light blue. "Watchet mantles." Spenser. Who stares in Germany at watchet eyes Dryden.
  • WATCHDOG
    A dog kept to watch and guard premises or property, and to give notice of the approach of intruders.
  • WATCHHOUSE
    1. A house in which a watch or guard is placed. 2. A place where persons under temporary arrest by the police of a city are kept; a police station; a lockup.
  • WATCHWORD
    1. A word given to sentinels, and to such as have occasion to visit the guards, used as a signal by which a friend is known from an enemy, or a person who has a right to pass the watch from one who has not; a countersign; a password. 2. A sentiment
  • WATCH MEETING
    A religious meeting held in the closing hours of the year.
  • PROMPTLY
    In a prompt manner.
  • BRISK
    1. Full of liveliness and activity; characterized by quickness of motion or action; lively; spirited; quick. Cheerily, boys; be brick awhile. Shak. Brick toil alternating with ready ease. Wordworth. 2. Full of spirit of life; effervescas, brick
  • PREPARATIVELY
    By way of preparation.
  • OBSERVANTLY
    In an observant manner.
  • READY-MADE
    Made already, or beforehand, in anticipation of need; not made to order; as, ready-made clothing; ready-made jokes.
  • CAREFULLY
    In a careful manner.
  • WATCHFUL
    Full of watch; vigilant; attentive; careful to observe closely; observant; cautious; -- with of before the thing to be regulated or guarded; as, to be watchful of one's behavior; and with against before the thing to be avoided; as, to be watchful
  • OBSERVANTINE
    One of a branch of the Order of Franciscans, who profess to adhere more strictly than the Conventuals to the intention of the founder, especially as to poverty; -- called also Observants.
  • BRISKLY
    In a brisk manner; nimbly.
  • CAUTIOUSNESS
    The quality of being cautious.
  • PROMPTUARY
    Of or pertaining to preparation. Bacon.
  • PROMPT-NOTE
    A memorandum of a sale, and time when payment is due, given to the purchaser at a sale of goods.
  • SELF-ACTIVE
    Acting of one's self or of itself; acting without depending on other agents.
  • CHYLIFACTIVE
    Producing, or converting into, chyle; having the power to form chyle.
  • COUNTERACTIVE
    Tending to counteract.
  • IMPREPARATION
    Want of preparation. Hooker.
  • RETROACTIVE
    Fitted or designed to retroact; operating by returned action; affecting what is past; retrospective. Beddoes. Retroactive law or statute , one which operates to make criminal or punishable, or in any way expressly to affect, acts done prior to
  • DETRACTIVE
    1. Tending to detractor draw. 2. Tending to lower in estimation; depreciative.
  • OVERREADY
    Too ready. -- O"ver*read"*i*ly, adv. -- O"ver*read"i*ness, n.
  • REFRACTIVE
    Serving or having power to refract, or turn from a direct course; pertaining to refraction; as, refractive surfaces; refractive powers. Refractive index. See Index of refraction, under Index. -- Absolute refractive index , the index of refraction
  • PRACTIVE
    Doing; active. Sylvester. -- Prac"tive*ly, adv. The preacher and the people both, Then practively did thrive. Warner.
  • INCAUTIOUS
    Not cautious; not circumspect; not attending to the circumstances on which safety and interest depend; heedless; careless; as, an incautious step; an incautious remark. You . . . incautious tread On fire with faithless embers overspread. Francis.

 

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