Awake

Quick meaning: Awake is an adjective meaning Not asleep; conscious.

Meaning

Not asleep; conscious.

More Meanings

1. (figurative, by extension) Alert, aware.
2. (intransitive) To become conscious after having slept.
3. (transitive) To cause (somebody) to stop sleeping.
4. (transitive) To make aware of something.
5. (transitive) To excite or to stir up something latent.
6. (transitive, figurative) To rouse from a state of inaction or dormancy.
7. (intransitive, figurative) To come out of a state of inaction or dormancy.

Example Sentences

They were awake to the possibility of a decline in sales.

The Baker was a two-handed hitter, and seemed perfectly awake to the business before him.

By quarter to six all this had me so awake and agitated that even the Balinese wind chimes that I hung up in the garden to relax me began to sound like Big Ben.

Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night, Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught The Sultán's Turret in a Noose of light.

Word Forms

• awakes
• awaking
• awaked
• awaken

Synonyms for awake

Depending on context, synonyms include alert, caffeinated, conscious, invigorated, invigorating, lively.

Antonyms for awake

Common opposites include asleep, unconscious, cold, comatose, dormant, nangry.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include waking, awakened, wide-awake, wake up, waken, awaken.

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