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wakeful

adj

Etymology

From wake + -ful.

  1. inherited from *wakēn✻
  2. inherited from wacian
  3. inherited from wakien
  4. inherited from *wakaną✻
  5. inherited from *wakan✻
  6. inherited from wacan
  7. inherited from waken
  8. suffixed as wakeful — “wake + ful”

Definitions

  1. Awake

    Awake; not sleeping.

  2. Sleepless.

  3. Vigilant and alert

    Vigilant and alert; watchful.

    • “Be wakeful, Beowulf, against our foe.”

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at wakeful. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01wakeful02sleeping03sleep04consciousness05conscious06aware07vigilant08vigilance09watchfulness10wakefulness

A definitional loop anchored at wakeful. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at wakeful

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA