Synonyms for awake
əˈweɪkawake

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1. awakeadjective

   Not asleep; conscious.

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

   Antonyms:
   fall asleep, asleep, unconscious

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.7 / 3 votes

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

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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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1. awakeadjective

   Synonyms:
   not asleep

2. awakeadjective

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

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1. List of paraphrases for "awake":

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

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. awake

   Synonyms:
   Fully aroused

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1. Joseph Heller, Catch 22:

   so convincing were those dreams of being awake that he woke from them in a state of complete exhaustion, and had to go straight back to sleep again.

2. Marwan Fathi:

   I still jump awake at night thinking an air strike is about to hit or that they are coming to take one of us, everyday is a struggle.

3. Napoleon Bonaparte:

   Never awake me when you have good news to announce, because with good news nothing presses but when you have bad news, arouse me immediately, for then there is not an instant to be lost.

4. Coast Guard Capt. Monica Rochester:

   The crew was actually already awake and on the bridge and they jumped off.

5. Ruth Bader Ginsburg:

   The audience for the most part is awake because they are bobbing up and down and we sit there, stone faced, but we're not, at least I was not 100% sober.