Synonyms for awake
əˈweɪk

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

1. awake(p)(adj)

   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, waken(verb)

   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

Wiktionary(3.83 / 6 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. awake(adjective)

   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

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

1. awake(a.)

   Synonyms:
   not asleep

2. awake(a.)

   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. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz:

   Was Secretary Clinton awake or asleep when four Americans were being murdered? We don't know to this day, we do know Hillary told her daughter Chelsea, 'Well gosh, I knew it was a terrorist attack,' while we were out telling the American people it wasn't. You know, I'll tell you, in my house, if my daughter Catherine, the 5-year-old, says something she knows to be false, she gets a spanking.

2. Lovro Oreškovi?:

   On the cruise liner they thought she didn't survive, she is clearly fit. She told us she does yoga, and that as she floated in the sea she sang the whole time so that her body temperature wouldn't fall, and to stay awake.

3. 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.

4. Charles M. Schulz:

   Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, Where have I gone wrong Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.

5. William McCollom:

   The gun was in the bed, I went to move it, put it to the side, and it went off, is she awake?

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