awake
adjEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ud-s-? Proto-Indo-European *h₂u-s-? Proto-Germanic *uz- Proto-West Germanic *uʀ- Old English ar- Old English ā- Proto-Indo-European *weǵ-der. Proto-Germanic *wakaną Proto-West Germanic *wakan Old English wacan Old English āwacan Middle English awaken Middle English awake English awake 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”).
- inherited from awake
Definitions
Not asleep
Not asleep; conscious.
- By quarter to six all this had me so awake and agitated that even the Balinese wind chimes that I hung up in the garden to relax me began to sound like Big Ben.
Alert, aware.
- They were awake to the possibility of a decline in sales.
- The Baker was a two-handed hitter, and seemed perfectly awake to the business before him.
To become conscious after having slept.
- Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night, Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught The Sultán's Turret in a Noose of light.
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To cause (somebody) to stop sleeping.
To make aware of something.
To excite or to stir up something latent.
To rouse from a state of inaction or dormancy.
To come out of a state of inaction or dormancy.
- 1867-1879, Edward Augustus Freeman, The History of the Norman Conquest of England The national spirit again awoke.
- Awake to righteousness, and sin not.
The neighborhood
- synonymalert
- synonymawake
- synonymcaffeinated
- synonymconscious
- synonyminvigorated
- synonyminvigorating
- synonymlively
- synonymwakeful
- synonymwakesome
- synonymwoke
- antonymasleep
- antonymunconscious
- neighborbright-eyed and bushy-tailed
- neighborup and at 'em
- neighborvigilant
- neighborwake
- neighborwakefulness
- neighborbroad awake
- neighborwide awake
- neighborawake to
- neighborawaken
- neighborwake up
- neighborwoke
Derived
awakeness, be awake, broad awake, half-awake, nonawake, unawake, wide-awake, wideawake, awakable, awaker, reawake
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at awake. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at awake. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at awake
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA