As he sits in the dark, typing away at his computer, he hears the sound of morning birds chirping away and realizes he has been up all night - but the insomniac still refuses to sleep.
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Insomniac
//ɪnˈsɒm.ni.æk//
Synonyms for "insomniac" (24 found)
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Closest matches (5)
Strong matches (7)
Related words (12)
Noun(1 words)
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1 entriesderived from
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1 entriesnot desires
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4 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
25 translations across 13 languages.
Arabic
2 entries- آرِق noun (one who suffers an inability or difficulty sleeping)
- أَرِق noun (one who suffers an inability or difficulty sleeping)
Catalan
1 entries- insomne adj (suffering from or pertaining to insomnia)
Finnish
2 entries- unettomuudesta kärsivä adj (suffering from or pertaining to insomnia)
- unettomuudesta kärsivä noun (one who suffers an inability or difficulty sleeping)
French
2 entries- insomniaque adj (suffering from or pertaining to insomnia)
- insomniaque noun (one who suffers an inability or difficulty sleeping)
German
4 entries- insomnisch adj (suffering from or pertaining to insomnia)
- schlafgestört adj (suffering from or pertaining to insomnia)
- Asomnier noun (one who suffers an inability or difficulty sleeping)
- Schlafgestörte noun (one who suffers an inability or difficulty sleeping)
Icelandic
2 entries- svefnleysis adj (suffering from or pertaining to insomnia)
- einhver sem þjáist af svefnleysi noun (one who suffers an inability or difficulty sleeping)
Italian
1 entries- insonne noun (one who suffers an inability or difficulty sleeping)
Macedonian
2 entries- бессоник noun (one who suffers an inability or difficulty sleeping)
- несоник noun (one who suffers an inability or difficulty sleeping)
Occitan
1 entries- insomniac noun (one who suffers an inability or difficulty sleeping)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- اویقوسز adj (suffering from or pertaining to insomnia)
Portuguese
1 entries- insone noun (one who suffers an inability or difficulty sleeping)
Romanian
2 entries- insomniac adj (suffering from or pertaining to insomnia)
- insomniac noun (one who suffers an inability or difficulty sleeping)
Spanish
2 entries- insomne adj (suffering from or pertaining to insomnia)
- insomne noun (one who suffers an inability or difficulty sleeping)
Sample sentences
8 total sentences available.
Sami was like an insomniac.
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Yanni has been a bit of an insomniac lately.
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I am an insomniac.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.