unwakeable

Cannot be roused

Unable to be woken from sleep.

The word usually describes someone in unusually deep slumber: The child was unwakeable after the long trip.

It can also apply to comatose patients or, figuratively, to people oblivious to what's happening around them: He remained unwakeable to the political changes reshaping his country.

coma

vegetative

Of plant growth

life support · persistent vegetative state · neurological · intubation · ventilator · ICU · critical care · prognosis · trauma · brain damage

sleep

deep sleep

Unconsciousness hard to rouse

  • slumberLight, restful unconsciousness
  • REMAcronym for dreaming phase
  • dreamingMental imagery during slumber

dead to the world · soporific · snoring · sleep inertia · heavy sleeper · sedated · somnolent · drowsy · tranquil · peaceful

figurative

unresponsive

Failing to react or reply

unreachable · disconnected · zoned out · dead to the world · impervious · unseeing · unhearing · beyond reach · lost to the world

sedation

anesthesia

Induced loss of feeling

benzodiazepine · barbiturate · morphine · fentanyl · ketamine · anesthetized · chloroform · ether · narcotic · hypnotic

exhaustion

fatigue

Weariness from prolonged exertion

overworked · collapse · spent · prostration · debilitated · weariness · overexertion · jet lag · crashed · dead tired

Opposites
responsiveness to arousal

unwakeablewakeable

Able to be roused

light sleeper · alert · responsive · wakeful · arousable

Family

wake, wakes, waked, woke, woken, waking, wakeful, wakefulness, wakeable

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