unslept
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not having been slept (in, on, with, etc.); usually with a preposition.
adj
Not having slept; sleep-deprived.
verb
simple past and past participle of unsleep
Example Sentences
- "As you stagger in, your eyes struggling to focus, your throat claggy with sleep unslept, you might expect it to be more or less deserted, save for the odd bomb-disposal squad blowing up someone's lost suitcase."
- "And in the midst of the mirror-like stillness through which it was impossible to see the great machineries grinding, my mother, the brand-new Amina Sinai, who also looked still and unchanging although great things were happening beneath her skin, woke up one morning with a head buzzing with insomnia and a tongue thickly coated with unslept sleep and found herself saying aloud, without meaning to at all, "What's the sun doing here, Allah? It's come up in the wrong place.'"
- "My eyes burn from sleep unslept and from tears unshed. I long for oblivion. I am impossibly tired."
- "The high-tension wires were lightning held forever, blazing, a threat above the unslept houses."
- "Tom's room was empty, the bed unslept in."
- "For a whole lifetime With no guaranties And promises not kept How ever hard you try to please All the nights unslept"
Etymology
From un- + slept.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: un