wide awakeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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形容詞

wide awake (comparative more wide awake, superlative most wide awake)

1. (idiomatic) Awake and very alert; vigilant, watchful.
   • 1951, C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia:

     "They are almost awake, not quite," said Lucy. She knew she herself was wide awake, wider than anyone usually is.

   • 1978, Richard Nixon, “The Presidency 1973–1974”, in RN: the Memoirs of Richard Nixon‎, Grosset & Dunlap, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 1085:

     I woke with a start. With the blackout curtains closed I didn't know what time it was. I looked at my watch. It said four o'clock. I had been asleep for only two hours, but I was wide awake.

   • 2025, “Bedlam”, in Hymns in Dissonance, performed by Whitechapel, United States:

     I am the teeth that grinds at your bones / As you lie there a failure with your will so weak / I am the ache you feel in your tomb / As you lay in your body still wide awake

2. (figurative) Keyed in or aware of things; not oblivious; woke.
   • 1984 April 21, “Classified advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 19:

     LF 37, F 33, working class backgrounds, left-ish politics, seek wide-awake F 30+ to share friendly, indep apt.

同意語

• broad awake

反意語

• fast asleep

派生語

• wideawake
• wido

語源

• From wide awake.
• (hat): From a pun in Punch magazine, relating to the fact that the hat had no nap.

名詞

wideawake (plural wideawakes)

1. A bird, the sooty tern.
2. (historical) A type of hat with a broad brim made of black or brown felt.

   Synonym: wideawake hat

   • 1884, Henry James, "The Author of Beltraffio" in The English Illustrated Magazine 1 (9–10) (June–July 1884).

     "He carried his benevolence to the point of coming to meet me at the little station at which I was to alight, and my heart beat very fast as I saw his handsome face, surmounted with a soft wide-awake, and which I knew by a photograph long since enshrined upon my mantel shelf, scanning the carriage windows as the train rolled up."

   • 1912, Katherine Mansfield, "The Woman At The Store", from "Selected Short Stories"

     Wisps of white hair straggled from under his wideawake […]