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English
Etymology
From un- + sleepable.
Adjective
unsleepable (comparative more unsleepable, superlative most unsleepable)
- Not sleepable; unsuitable for sleeping.
1852, William Allen Drew, Glimpses and gatherings during a voyage and visit to London and the Great Exhibition in the summer of 1851:Oh! how the tall masts did slat the rigging like whips; and what an unsleepable noise the flapping sails did make!