"insomniac" meaning in English

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Adjective

Audio: en-us-insomniac.ogg [US]
Rhymes: -æk Etymology: insomnia + -ac Etymology templates: {{suf|en|insomnia|ac}} insomnia + -ac Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} insomniac (not comparable)
  1. Suffering from or pertaining to insomnia. Tags: not-comparable Categories (topical): Sleep Translations (suffering from or pertaining to insomnia): insomne (Catalan), unettomuudesta kärsivä (Finnish), insomniaque (French), insomnisch (German), schlafgestört (German), svefnleysis- (Icelandic), اویقوسز (uykusuz) (Ottoman Turkish), insomniac (Romanian), insomne (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-insomniac-en-adj-dCX6iYPB Disambiguation of Sleep: 64 36 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -ac Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 75 25 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 69 31 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ac: 73 27

Noun

Audio: en-us-insomniac.ogg [US] Forms: insomniacs [plural]
Rhymes: -æk Etymology: insomnia + -ac Etymology templates: {{suf|en|insomnia|ac}} insomnia + -ac Head templates: {{en-noun}} insomniac (plural insomniacs)
  1. One who suffers an inability or difficulty sleeping; a sufferer from insomnia. Categories (topical): People Translations (one who suffers an inability or difficulty sleeping): unettomuudesta kärsivä (Finnish), insomniaque (French), Schlafloser [masculine] (German), Schlafgestörter [masculine] (German), Schlafgestörte [feminine] (German), Asom­nier (med.) [masculine] (German), einhver sem þjáist af svefnleysi [masculine] (Icelandic), insonne [masculine] (Italian), insomniac [masculine] (Occitan), insone (Portuguese), insomniac [masculine] (Romanian)
    Sense id: en-insomniac-en-noun-7MU13-UE Disambiguation of People: 36 64

Inflected forms

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