Definitions for wide-awake

wide-awake wide-a·wake

Spelling: [wahyd-uh-weyk]
IPA: /ˈwaɪd əˈweɪk/

Wide-Awake is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 113 anagrams from letters in wide-awake (-aadeeikww).

Definitions for wide-awake

noun

  1. Also called wide-awake hat. a soft, low-crowned felt hat.
  2. the sooty tern.

adjective

  1. fully awake; with the eyes wide open.
  2. alert, keen, or knowing:

Origin of wide-awake

First recorded in 1810-20

Examples for wide-awake

He's the most observing, wide-awake fellow I ever knew since I came up from the South.

All at once he found himself aroused and wide-awake as ever.

“The Government are too wide-awake to allow you to do that,” he observed.

By this time Frank was wide-awake, with every sense aroused.

Then she sprang from her cosy nest, wide-awake and full of courage.

It made them realize that a wide-awake aggregation was in town.

He did not quite know, for he felt that though he was wide-awake he could not think as he should.

You can't hope to slink past a cunning, wide-awake, evil brute like he was.

It was not only wide-awake and intelligent; it was something more.

The Dictator looked fresh, bright, wide-awake, and ready for anything.

Word Value for wide-awake
Scrable

8

Words with friends

8

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