Insomniac (Adjective)
Meaning
Experiencing or accompanied by sleeplessness; "insomniac old people"; "insomniac nights"; "lay sleepless all night"; "twenty watchful, weary, tedious nights"- Shakespeare.
Classification
All adjective clusters.
Examples
- After years of struggling with insomnia, Sarah became a perpetually insomniac individual, never quite adjusting to the 3 AM wake-up calls that her mind seemed to have programmed itself to follow.
- As we grow older, our sleep patterns can become more insomniac, with middle age and older adults experiencing increasing difficulty in getting quality rest.
- During exams, insomniac nights spent poring over notes and texts had become a familiar experience for students who pulled all-nighters in the hope of performing well.
- In those long insomniac hours when darkness seems to weigh most heavily upon us, our fears and worries seem to intensify.
- When suffering from anxiety or depression, an individual can go through several insomniac nights spent worrying and fearing, thereby entering into a vicious cycle that perpetuates further emotional turmoil.