Meaning

Alert, awake; with one's mental faculties active..

Definitions by Sense

1. Alert, awake; with one's mental faculties active.
2. Aware of one's own existence; aware of one's own awareness.
3. Aware of, sensitive to; observing and noticing, or being strongly interested in or concerned about.
4. Deliberate, intentional, done with awareness of what one is doing.
5. Known or felt personally, internally by a person.
6. (rare) Self-conscious, or aware of wrongdoing, feeling guilty.
7. The part of the mind that is aware of itself; the consciousness.

Example Sentences

The noise woke me, but it was another few minutes before I was fully conscious.

Only highly intelligent beings can be fully conscious.

The best indicator of your level of consciousness is how you deal with life's challenges when they come. Through those challenges, an already unconscious person tends to become more deeply unconscious, and a conscious person more intensely conscious.

I was conscious of a noise behind me. a very class-conscious analysis

Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.

Once again the animals were conscious of a vague uneasiness.

Furthermore, the military operator is far less conscious of budgetary constraints than is the civilian consumer.

He candidly confesses that it is an effort to account for Joseph Smith upon some other hypothesis than that he was a conscious fraud, bent on deceiving mankind.

Word Forms

• more conscious
• most conscious
• consciouses

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Use conscious when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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