Synonyms for awake
əˈweɪkawake

Wiktionary(3.83 / 6 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. awakeadjective

   Not asleep; conscious.

   Synonyms:
   awaken, wake up, lucid, wide awake, conscious

   Antonyms:
   fall asleep, asleep, unconscious

English Synonyms and Antonyms(3.67 / 3 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. awake

   Vigilant implies more sustained activity and more intelligent volition than alert; one may be habitually alert by reason of native quickness of perception and thought, or one may be momentarily alert under some excitement or expectancy; one who is vigilant is so with thoughtful purpose. One is vigilant against danger or harm; he may be alert or watchful for good as well as against evil; he is wary in view of suspected stratagem, trickery, or treachery. A person may be wakeful because of some merely physical excitement or excitability, as through insomnia; yet he may be utterly careless and negligent in his wakefulness, the reverse of watchful; a person who is truly watchful must keep himself wakeful while on watch, in which case wakeful has something of mental quality. Watchful, from the Saxon, and vigilant, from the Latin, are almost exact equivalents; but vigilant has somewhat more of sharp definiteness and somewhat more suggestion of volition; one may be habitually watchful; one is vigilant of set purpose and for direct cause, as in the presence of an enemy. Compare ALERT.

   Synonyms:
   alert, careful, cautious, circumspect, on the alert, on the lookout, sleepless, vigilant, wakeful, wary, watchful, wide-awake

   Antonyms:
   careless, drowsy, dull, heedless, inattentive, incautious, inconsiderate, neglectful, negligent, oblivious, thoughtless, unwary

Princeton's WordNet(4.50 / 4 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. awake(p)adjective

   not in a state of sleep; completely conscious

   "lay awake thinking about his new job"; "still not fully awake"

   Antonyms:
   incognizant, unaware

2. alert, alive(p), awake(p)verb

   mentally perceptive and responsive;"an alert mind"

   "alert to the problems"; "alive to what is going on"; "awake to the dangers of her situation"; "was now awake to the reality of his predicament"

   Antonyms:
   incognizant, unaware

3. wake up, awake, arouse, awaken, wake, come alive, wakenverb

   stop sleeping

   "She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock"

   Synonyms:
   kindle, excite, put forward, heat, come alive, provoke, inflame, perk up, enkindle, wake up, stir, wake, elicit, energise, stimulate, fire, arouse, fire up, bring up, conjure up, ignite, raise, waken, turn on, call down, energize, wind up, call forth, invoke, rouse, awaken, brace, evoke, sex, conjure, stir up

   Antonyms:
   unaware, incognizant

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Dictionary of English Synonymes(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. awakeadjective

   Synonyms:
   not asleep

2. awakeadjective

   Synonyms:
   attentive, watchful, vigilant, alive, on the alert

PPDB, the paraphrase database(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these paraphrases:

1. List of paraphrases for "awake":

   woken, awaken, woke, unanesthetized, waking, up, sor

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD(4.00 / 1 vote)Rate these synonyms:

1. awake

   Synonyms:
   Fully aroused

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1. Debra Tate:

   I know for a fact she did not have a premonition — awake or in a dream — that she and Jay would have their throat cut, i checked with all of her living friends. None of her friends had any knowledge of this. Tacky, tacky, tacky. It’s a total fabrication.

2. Jennifer Hetterscheidt:

   She'll stumble now and then but as long as she can get a grip where she is, she can get up, even though she's easy to care for, we watch her like a hawk every moment that we're awake.

3. Michael Grandner:

   It's counterintuitive, but spending time in bed awake turns the bed into the dentist's chair.

4. Khloe Kardashian:

   The fact that he woke up was definitely a sigh of relief for everybody, every hour is different. It goes up and it goes down but he's awake. He's alive and that's all I wanted, was for him to be okay.

5. Christopher Taylor:

   Meeting sleep recommendations helps us meet that specific need for sleep related to our health, but is also tied to not doing the things that can harm health, the longer we’re awake, the more opportunities we have to eat. And at night, those calories are coming from snacks and sweets. Every time we make those decisions, we’re introducing calories and items related to increased risk for chronic disease, and we’re not getting whole grains, fruits and vegetables.