# wameful

**Pronunciation:** WAMEFUL

**CEFR level:** B1

**Part of speech:** adjective

## Meaning

Wameful means awake; not sleeping.

## Examples

- The writer described the response as wameful.
- A wameful tone can change the mood of a conversation.
- The situation became wameful after the announcement.

## Common patterns

- wameful + noun — Use wameful before a noun to describe that quality. — The writer described a wameful reaction.
- become wameful — Use after become, seem, or be for a state or quality. — The discussion became wameful near the end.

## Collocations

- wameful behavior — The teacher calmly handled the wameful behavior.
- wameful tone — The email had an wameful tone.

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