unsleptadj.
1. Not having slept.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > [adjective] > having had insufficient or no sleep
unslept?a1513
underslept1943
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 127 The sentence lay full evill till find, Vnsleipit in my heid behind.
1598 Chaucers Dreame in T. Speght Wks. G. Chaucer f. 363v/2 An aged knight..With visage..pale, as man long vnslept.
1876 J. Grant One of Six Hundred i. 10 My poor mother, pale, anxious, and unslept,..stole softly into my room.
1894 J. A. Froude Life & Lett. Erasmus 230 I hurry on board unsupped and unslept.
2. Not slept in; not slept off.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > [adjective] > not slept off
unslept1821
the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > [adjective] > having been slept in > not
unslept1864
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > types of bed > [adjective]
softOE
high post1809
four-posta1818
unslept1864
queen-size1959
orthopaedic1976
1821 Ld. Byron Sardanapalus i. ii. 16 Is this moment A fitting one for the resumption of Thy yet unslept-off revels?
1864 C. M. Yonge Trial I. 289 She had..found..never before, Mr. Ward's bed unslept in.
1880 L. Parr Adam & Eve xxxv. 476 The untasted food, the unslept-in bed.
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