awake
/əˈweɪk/ adjective, verb
Forms awakes awaking awoke awaked awoken awaken
- adjective (not comparable) Not asleep; conscious.
- adjective (figurative, by extension) Alert, aware. “They were awake to the possibility of a decline in sales.”
- verb (intransitive) To become conscious after having slept.
- verb (transitive) To cause (somebody) to stop sleeping.
- verb (transitive) To make aware of something.
- verb (transitive) To excite or to stir up something latent.
- verb (transitive, figurative) To rouse from a state of inaction or dormancy.
- verb (intransitive, figurative) To come out of a state of inaction or dormancy.
- verb Used in a phrasal verb: to awake to (“to become awake of something and its possibile effects or results.”). “It took her some time to awake to the dangers of her situation.”
- verb Used in a phrasal verb: to awake to (“to be roused from one's sleep, due to a noise or other stimulus.”). “this morning, I awoke to the sound of my neighbor's barking dog.”
Synonyms
conscious lucid wide awake wary woke alert aware heedful hip observant on guard on the lookout on the watch on watch vigilant wakeful wakesome watchful caffeinated invigorated wake up arouse awaken wake come alive waken alive
Antonyms
asleep unconscious cold comatose dead to the world dormant down for the count in the arms of Morpheus in the arms of Murphy nangry out cold out like a light
Etymology
From Middle English awake, a shortened form of awaken (“awakened, awake”), past participle of Middle English awaken (“to awaken”). See verb below. Compare Saterland Frisian woak (“awake”), German Low German waak (“awake”), German wach (“awake”).
From Middle English awaken and awakien, from Old English āwacan and āwacian. By surface analysis, a- + wake.
Webster’s 1913
- verb To rouse from sleep.; to wake; to awaken.
- verb To rouse from a state resembling sleep, as from death, stupidity., or inaction; to put into action; to give new life to; to stir up; as, to awake the dead; to awake the dormant faculties.
- verb To cease to sleep; to come out of a state of natural sleep; and, figuratively, out of a state resembling sleep, as inaction or death.
- adjective Not sleeping or lethargic; roused from sleep; in a state of vigilance or action.
Etymology [AS. awæcnan, v. i. (imp. aw), and awacian, v. i. (imp. awacode). See Awaken, Wake.]
Etymology [From awaken, old p. p. of awake.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “awake”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details