sleepless night
Tossing until dawn
A sleepless night is one spent unable to sleep, whether from worry, excitement, illness, or external disturbance.
The phrase often appears in the plural to emphasize ongoing distress: The diagnosis gave her many sleepless nights.
A single sleepless night suggests acute anxiety or anticipation: I spent a sleepless night before the interview.
- insomniaPersistent inability to rest
- restlessUnable to be still
- tossing and turningInability to sleep peacefully
- tossingLight underhand throw
- turningAct of rotating
wakeful · wide awake · lying awake · exhaustion · anxiety · ceiling · darkness · tired · weary · racing thoughts · restless mind · pillow · dawn · bleary · fatigue · counting sheep · 3am · early hours
- nighttimestarry sky, moonlight, dusk, darkness, full moon
sleepless nightgood night's sleep
Adequate quality rest
deep sleep · restorative sleep · dead to the world · sleeping like a log · out like a light
sleep, sleepless, sleeplessly, sleeplessness, sleeper, sleepers, sleeping, sleepy, sleepily