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UK
/ɪnsˈɒmnɪˌæk/
]
[ US /ˌɪnˈsɑmniˌæk/ ]
[ US /ˌɪnˈsɑmniˌæk/ ]
NOUN
- someone who cannot sleep
ADJECTIVE
-
experiencing or accompanied by sleeplessness
twenty watchful, weary, tedious nights
insomniac old people
insomniac nights
lay sleepless all night
How To Use insomniac In A Sentence
- Always an insomniac, he'd been short of sleep for weeks.
- Voice acting by many of the original cast members, or at least pretty good facsimiles, a fine soundtrack, groovy graphics, all complemented by gameplay that could drop a hardcore insomniac into blissful sleep inside of an hour.
- The insomniac narrator is every-consumer, furnishing his apartment from catalogues, buying labels, feeling spiritually empty.
- There was not even a trace of comfort in my little insomniac episode the other night.
- He appears to be assuming that we're all getting 8 hours of sleep, yet he's on record as a terrible insomniac.
- But the man's music - he is some sort of insomniac violinist - reminds me of the time I lived next to Huntingdon Life Sciences when they got a new delivery of cats.
- Christian Bale, who shed 50 pounds, stars as an insomniac who hasn't slept for a year and fears that they may be out to get him.
- Science, the study describes how a genetic variation found in people who seem to need only about six hours 'sleep-compared to the often recommended 7½ to eight hours-was put into mice to create a colony of "insomniac" rodents. Impact Lab
- The Welsh residents were most likely to have trouble sleeping, unlike those in Newcastle, and the researchers reported: ‘Wales is a nation of insomniacs.’
- Call me an insomniac; I only sleep a few hours a day if that.