Woke

Quick meaning: Woke is an adjective meaning (African-American Vernacular or slang) Awake: conscious and not asleep.

Meaning

(African-American Vernacular or slang) Awake: conscious and not asleep.

More Meanings

1. (by extension, politics, slang, often derogatory) Holding progressive views or attitudes, principally with regard to social justice.
2. (countable, slang, often derogatory) A person with progressive views or attitudes.
3. (uncountable, slang, derogatory) A progressive ideology, in particular with regards to social justice.
4. simple past of wake
5. (now colloquial or dialectal) past participle of wake
6. (originally African-American Vernacular, slang) Alert, aware of what is going on, or well-informed, especially of racial and other social justice issues.
7. (by extension, politics, slang, derogatory) Promoting cancel culture, identitarianism, pontification, victim mentality, or virtue signalling.

Example Sentences

If You’re Woke You Dig It [title]

[…] stay woke[,] people of color, / let us occupy this dissent

What if there was no niccas / Only master teachers? / I stay woke (dreams dreams)

Waking up is a damn sight harder than going to sleep, but we’ll stay woke up longer.

Word Forms

• woker
• wokest
• wokes

Synonyms for woke

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

Antonyms for woke

Common opposites include unwoke, philistine.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include awake, raised, awoke, got, rose, aroused.

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